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Prepare a Reflective Essay in which you address each of the following items:

• Describe how you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this session through this course
• Evaluate the work you did during the session for the class and explain ways you could have performed better
• Identify topics you did not understand or successfully implement and suggest how to improve the course material on those topics.
• Identify ways to measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.
• State whether you achieved the course outcomes

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(Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to satisfy the following outcomes:

Module 1
Devise viable research questions in accordance with established criteria.
Conduct a literature search to identify empirical research relevant to a research.
Formulate a research hypothesis aligned with a given research question in both null and alternative formats.
Module 2
Conduct a literature search to identify empirical research relevant to a research question.
Integrate and synthesize empirical study findings to characterize the “current state of knowledge” relative to a research topic/question.
Distinguish the various observational study designs and the randomized controlled trial with regard to validity and feasibility.
Module 3
Formulate a research hypothesis aligned with a given research question in both null and alternative formats.
Delineate a study’s sampling frame and sample.
Distinguish the various probability and non-probability sampling methodologies.
Module 4
Distinguish the various observational study designs and the randomized controlled trial with regard to validity and feasibility.
Operationalize study variables by type and level of measurement.
Module 5
Delineate a study’s sampling frame and sample.
Distinguish the various probability and non-probability sampling methodologies.
Interpret univariate and bivariate statistical findings reported in a peer-reviewed journal article.)