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Week 13: April 14
Events This Week At the Library	Message from the Head Librarian Keep Your Library Card Privileges Library Lessons : Research Designs Lesson 1: Mixed Method Designs Lesson 2: Action research Designs Lesson 3: Final Draft of Your Research Proposal Circulation Desk Next Week at the Library

A Message from the Head Librarian	Welcome to your fourth and final week on the third floor of the library. Our lessons this week will complete our discussions of various research designs available to researchers to address their research problems and questions. Please note that the library will be closed next week due to the Thanksgiving holidays. This gives you an extra week to complete this week's assignments. However, you should probably not take an entire week off given that you have quizzes to complete as well as the final draft of your proposal due. A few have asked about the final exam. I am finalizing the objectives and test specifications this week and will share these with you via email next week so be looking for that. This week we begin to prepare the final draft of the proposal and close out the content of the course. For the APA tidbit this week , I thought it might be helpful to list the five more common APA problems encountered in the proposal drafts and let you correct them. 1. …emerging evidence is showing that even “successful” attitude change… 2. Approximately seven hundred ninth through twelfth grade students from the… 3. The NELS followed a cohort of 1988 8^th –graders… 4. …supported in the literature by only two themes: 1) computer use among people with disabilities and 2) Internet use among people with disabilities. 5. The questionnaire solicited information on a variety of topics… Answers will be provided next week. Our goals this week are to: Describe the different designs for conducting mixed methods research Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of mixed method designs Describe key characteristics of mixed method designs Describe the steps of conducting a mixed method study Identify types of action research designs Describe key characteristics of action research Describe the steps in conducting an action research study

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