Focus on Chicago Public Schools and LGBTQIA+ issues in any form also welcome.
This course requires you to do a literature review research paper. Your research paper will NOT
involve any real person. Instead, you will be conducting a theoretical work in that you will find
existing research on a topic you are interested in and do an analytical criticism with your own
thought, as informed by the materials you learn in class. Again, you CANNOT use any research
participant. Your data will be news columns, audio/visual sources, existing documentaries, etc,
depending on the nature of your research. You should also cite relevant research articles.
Example topics include: student performance and district budget, teenagers and digital media
use, criticism of universal health care, etc. Although your paper will not involve any people, still
you should know how to conduct research with real people. To that end, you should visit the
following website:
https://offices.depaul.edu/research-services/research-protections/irb/training/Pages/default.aspx
Say, you are interested in a certain issue teenagers experience, your data can be existing research
papers you found in the library or news articles about the issue. Or if you are interested in school
performance, then your data could be the aggregated student records published on the school or
district websites that are publicly available. These data are existing information and public
records, you do not need to conduct any empirical research to collect any experimental data or
observational data by yourself. Do not include any identifiable or confidential information of
any person, this includes photos (unless it is taken on the public street or existing data).
You should carefully examine the topic, explicate the theories you use, interpret phenomena in
terms of the constructs you choose, and relate your analysis to educational domain and broader
social significance. The paper should be 8-10 pages in length, including citations and a
bibliography, typed and double-spaced, and written in APA style. The paper should exhibit
overall coherence and academic rigor, be submitted to D2L Submission, and follow this order:
Topic: show clear aims and objectives of a narrowly defined topic.
Literature: summarize relevant research literature.
Methodology: articulate your methodology (philosophy in general that guides your
thinking) and method (specific type of research method you used to study your research
question).
Results: critically analyze and evaluate the result using research methods you choose.
Include graphs or figures to support your ideas when necessary.
Discussion: thoroughly discuss the meaning of your results.
Conclusion: ends with conclusion and implications, or directions for future research.
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