RES 885 All Weeks Discussions GCU

Create a draft Individual Success Plan for accomplishing the final deliverables in this course, which is a completed prospectus and an outline of “The Review of Literature” section in Chapter 2. In your plan, provide a rationale for your plan and also include how you will address the iterative reviews given the feedback from your chair in this course. This plan will be submitted as an assignment in Week 2 of this course. How might the feedback given on your submitted deliverables potentially alter your Individual Success Plan (ISP)? How will you adapt to these changes as they occur?

Identify the three members on a GCU committee and the role they play in coaching the learner to complete the dissertation. What will you need to do to become the leader/project manager for your dissertation? How can you establish a win-win relationship, particularly when setting expectations and communicating with your committee members? Explain.

Present three arguments from empirical studies published in the past three years that define a problem space to justify the need for your proposed study. For each argument, provide supporting citations from the empirical studies. Additionally, upload the corresponding PDFs of the full studies you are using to build your argument. Note: Use the feedback provided by your instructor to continue to revise the Background to the Problem section of your prospectus.

Synthesize the three arguments you identified in Module 2 DQ 1 in this topic to develop a one sentence problem statement for your proposed study. Note: Use feedback from your instructor to revise and/or refine the problem statement section of your prospectus.

Respond to one of the following based on the selected methodology of your dissertation study.

If doing a qualitative study:
Identify an empirical study which was conducted on the phenomenon you are researching. Identify the theories or models in that study that are relevant to the phenomenon for your proposed study. Discuss how the theory or model is relevant to the phenomenon addressed in your study. Note: Use instructor feedback to revise the Theoretical Foundation section in your prospectus.

If doing a quantitative study:
Identify the variables which you are exploring for your study. Describe each variable and the model or theory aligned to the variable. Identify and name an instrument which measures the variable or variables. Identify an empirical study which used the variable you will be researching. Find the model or theory for the variable in that article or in the validation article on the instrument used to measure it. Note: Use instructor feedback to revise the Theoretical Foundation section in your prospectus.

Respond to one of the following based on the selected methodology of your dissertation study.

If doing a qualitative study:
Use the problem statement and the model(s) and/or theory(ies) to develop the research questions for your proposed study. Once you have instructor feedback put these research questions into the research questions section in your Prospectus deliverable.

If doing a quantitative Study:
Use the problem statement and variables to develop the research questions for your proposed study. Once you have instructor feedback put these research questions into the research questions section in your prospectus deliverable.

In Week 6 of the next dissertation course (DIS/DBA/PSY/PCE/TLC-955), you will submit a revised prospectus. The submission is scored as pass/fail and is worth 400 points. If each section of the prospectus does not receive a score of at least “2 – Meets Expectations” at that time, you will fail the course and need to retake the class.

• Reflect on the feedback your chair and methodologist (if appropriate) have provided on your prospectus to date.
• Using the criteria in the prospectus template, complete a self-evaluation of the work you have completed for each section. Based on your self-evaluation and chair feedback, what section(s) of the prospectus do you need to refine and work on in order fully meet the requirements in the criterion tables and to receive a score of “2 – Item Meets Expectations”? Remember, your prosepctus must be approved in the DIS/DBA/PSY/PCE/TLC-955 course in order to pass that course.
• What information or guidance do you need from your chair and/or methodologist to help you meet expectations on the prospectus criteria?