field of psychology
SY 790 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric: Resource Collection In the discussion for Module One, you submitted potential topics for your capstone research proposal. For this milestone, you will collect potential peer-reviewed resources that will be used to support your ideas. In your capstone research proposal, you will develop a well-organized research concept paper that lays the foundation for a solid plan to implement research. You will address a relevant problem that aligns with your focus within the field of psychology. You may choose a problem that reveals a gap in our understanding and requires you to provide an explanation of psychological phenomena and variables. Or it may be an applied problem that directly involves the psychological well-being of individuals, communities, or organizations. In either case, you will need resources to support your cause, which is why this milestone is necessary. Prompt: Integrate the literature relevant to your research questions or intervention in a three- to five-page paper. At the beginning of this paper, state your research questions or intervention and explain the significance of these things within the field of psychology. Then discuss how each resource relates to your research questions or intervention. In this paper, you may summarize each article in preparation for the synthesis that is necessary for the literature review you will submit for Milestone Two. Milestone One is an opportunity for you to show how you can deeply immerse yourself in the literature in preparation for your literature review. In this assignment, you will analyze the resources to tell your own story in your literature review. In your submission, be sure to include the critical elements listed below.
• Develop well-formed research questions or a relevant intervention and explain the significance of these things within the field of psychology. • Summarize the literature and identify the main argument in support of the research questions or intervention. • Assess sources specific to research questions, describing the author’s credentials, arguments, objectivity, persuasiveness, and conclusions. • Analyze sources, including the methodology, to determine their strengths and weaknesses in how they impact our understanding of the intervention or
the research questions. • Include a conclusion that ties together the literature addressed and reiterates the connection to the research questions and the main argument. • Ensure that the submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization.
Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a three- to five-page Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one- inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Critical Element Meets Expectations (100%)
In Progress (80%)
Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)
Value
Develop Research Question
Develops well-formed research questions or a relevant intervention and explains the significance of these things within the field of psychology
Develops research questions or a relevant intervention and explains the significance of these things within the field of psychology, but research questions are not well-formed or explanation is cursory
Does not develop well-formed research questions or a relevant intervention or explain the significance of these things within the field of psychology
25
Summarize Literature Summarizes the literature and identifies the main argument in support of the research questions or intervention
Summarizes the literature but fails to accurately identify the main argument in support of the research questions or intervention
Does not summarize the literature or identify the main argument in support of the research questions or intervention
15
Assess Sources Assesses sources specific to research questions, describing the author’s credentials, arguments, objectivity, persuasiveness, and conclusions
Assesses sources specific to research questions, describing the author’s credentials, arguments, objectivity, persuasiveness, and conclusions, but there are errors in the assessments or the descriptions
Does not assess sources specific to research questions, describing the author’s credentials, arguments, objectivity, persuasiveness, and conclusions
20
Analyze Sources Analyzes sources, including the methodology, to determine their strengths and weaknesses in how they impact our understanding of the intervention or the research questions
Analyzes sources, including the methodology, to determine their strengths and weaknesses in how they impact our understanding of the intervention or the research questions, but there are inaccuracies in determinations or analysis is cursory
Does not analyze sources, including the methodology, to determine their strengths and weaknesses in how they impact our understanding of the intervention or the research questions
25
Develop Conclusion Includes a conclusion that ties together the literature addressed and reiterates the connection to the research questions and the main argument
Includes a conclusion that ties the literature addressed and reiterates the connection to the research questions and the main arguments, but connections are unconvincing or conclusion does not effectively connect to literature
Does not include a conclusion that ties together the literature addressed or reiterate the connection to the research questions and the main argument
10
Articulation of Response
Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has minor errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
5
organization with room for improvement
Total 100%
PSY 790 Milestone One Gui