POSITION PAPER FOR MAED 215.

SPECIAL TOPICS IN EDUCATION

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Preliminaries
Title Page The title page should contain the following information:

The Title of the Topic

The name of the student and below it is the month and
the year
( see attachment a)
Table of Contents Arranged in the format attached
Chapter 1
THE
INTRODUCTION
Situation The background of the study is an important part of your
Analysis research paper. This section highlights the empirical foundation
of the proposed thesis/research study. In many ways, this section
of your thesis proposal is deceptively straightforward. On one
level, the purpose of a background section is to give the reader
the relevant facts about your topic so that they understand the
material that you are writing about and how it links to your
research question. This section must not, however, simply
provide the general context, but must direct the readers' attention
to the empirical details through which your research topic and
question are lived and made relevant. As such, this writing must
not just fill in details of the topic you are researching, but
implicitly illustrate the need for and importance of your research
Statement of the Statement of the Problem
Problem
A statement of the problem is a way of expressing your
interest in a problem or phenomenon. Research questions are not
necessarily an attempt to answer the many philosophical
questions that often arise in schools, and they are certainly not
intended to be an avenue for grinding personal axes regarding
classroom or school issues. You may have more than one
research question for a study, depending on the complexity and
breadth of your proposed work. Each question should be clear
and specific, refer to the problem or phenomenon, reflect an
intervention in experimental work, and note the target
population or participants. Identifying a research question will
provide greater focus to your research or clarify the direction of
your investigation, whether the research is descriptive or
experimental.
It is composed of the General and specific problems
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Limitations of the The limitations of the study is where the researcher would
study state the coverage and restrictions of the study. The scope will
mention all the variables that will be used in the study while the
limitations will be mentioning the portion of the study is not
covered by the research.
This part will define the boundaries and variables that are
not part of the study. Moreover, the reader would be able to
determine what are included in the study and what are not.
Review of Conducting a literature review is a means of
Literature demonstrating an author’s knowledge about a particular field of
study, including vocabulary, theories, key variables and
phenomena, and its methods and history. Conducting a literature
review also informs the student of the influential researchers and
research groups in the field and with some modification, the
literature review is a “legitimate and publishable scholarly
document” (LeCompte & colleagues, 2003, p. 124).1
The written review of literature (also called Background)
presents an argument that justifies your choice of topic and the
way you have chosen to address it. the researcher has to begin
the review with the most general aspects of the topic and
gradually narrow it until it implies the research questions or
hypotheses. the researcher have to define, also, any specialized
terms as he introduce them. Provide the general context for the
proposed study. This can be done in terms of a general overview
of the field, with a description of a classic study or studies, on the
basis of history of the field, grounded in a theory to be tested, or
with other context setting methods.2
Note: The arrangement of literature is thematic. This
means that the arrangement of the SOP is also the
arrangement of the literature
Chapter 2
RESULTS AND The arrangement of the SOP should also be the
DISCUSSIONS arrangement of the Results and Discussion. The discussions of
results should be backed up by the literature cited in the Review
of Literature
Summary The contents of the summary includes the title of the
paper, the general and specific problems and the scope and
limitations.
Conclusions One paragraph will summarize the conclusions.
Recommendations One paragraph will summarize the recommendations
Note: In the conclusions and recommendations, your position will be stated. (eg. either
you are agreeing or not to what was presented.
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Findings The findings is arranged according to how the SOP and
Results and Discussion were arranged. Thus, the findings is as a
one sentence (or a summary of the discussion for each problem).
This means that the number of findings should also correspond
to the number problems stated.
Conclusions From the findings of the study, it’s time to formulate the
conclusions. The conclusions are the implication of the findings.
This means that this is the statement of the a deeper meaning of
the findings as implicated in the title of study. Furthermore, the
conclusions are based from the findings not the reiteration of it.
Recommendations The recommendation of the study is based from the
conclusions. What is missing in the conclusion, or the gap of the
findings of study, is where the recommendation should come
from.

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