Synthesizing and Evaluating Valid and Reliable Research

Unit 2

Locate at least 4 contemporary, peer-reviewed articles or dissertation or thesis research studies that are qualitative in nature (e.g., case studies, historical) related to your topic of interest for your paper and PowerPoint presentation.

Write a paper that contains the following sections:

1. Summarize the type of study and phenomenon of interest.

2. Discuss whether the sample and population used were appropriate.

3. Summarize results, limitations of results, conclusions, and applications.

4. Compare the results, conclusions, and applications among all 4 studies in a summary paragraph.

Prepare 4 PowerPoint slides that detail the most applicable results associated with each qualitative study to your topic of interest and area of application or function related to healthcare.

Unit 3

Locate at least 4 contemporary peer-reviewed articles or dissertation or thesis research studies that are quantitative or mixed-methods in nature (experimental, quasi-experimental, descriptive or pre-experimental/survey, etc.) related to your topic of interest for your paper and PowerPoint presentation. Complete the following:

• Summarize the type of study and phenomenon of interest

• Discuss whether the sample and population used was appropriate

• Summarize results, limitations of results, conclusions, and applications

• Compare the results, conclusions, and applications among all 4 studies in a summary paragraph.

• Describe the statistical method used in the cited research studies.

Additionally, create 4 PowerPoint slides that detail the most applicable results associated with each quantitative or mixed-methods study to your topic of interest and area of application or function related to health care.