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12:15pm - 1:30pm, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 (75 minutes) - MLC 209

Name:David Dimitri KatakalosEmail:dkatakalos@alamo.eduBooking submitted:01:39pm, Oct 29 2019Course Name & Number (ie, Geography 1301)::PSYC 2301.028  What general area of research or topics will your students be exploring?:Research articles/studies on Reading  What will your students do or create with the sources they find?:Report paper in APA style on 4 selected articles determining the research approach of each.  On the day students attend the library class, **at what point will they be** in their research process?:specific research topic defined; they will need help evaluating evidence to address specific ideas or questions  Notes (different start/end time, requests, etc.)::Research APA Style Assignment The Smithsonian report on Joanna Sikora's home libraries study published in Social Science Research will be the focus for this assignment. Three variables are to be considered in your library research: 1. Improved brain function 2. Stress Reduction 3. Improve empathetic response Find articles (3) that have validity for Sikora's findings. Please consider the type of research worldview (aka paradigm) as presented in each article. Four research worldviews are to be considered: 1. The Post-Positivist worldview closely follows the explanations for how research is done by psychologists as described in Huffman (pages 20-32): find ways to eliminate bias, use of treatment and control groups in experimental fashion; collecting data about phenomena to determine a correlation; and then applying statistical methodology to find significance – "What do Sikora's the results objectively mean?" 2. The Constructivist worldview comes from the agreement that reality