Research Literature Review

Your literature review creates a theoretical foundation for your evaluation and guides the development of the research question. As you research, be sure to consider multiple perspectives and theories, rather than simply viewing your program evaluation through one lens. This ensures that you find the most reliable and accurate methodologies and theories to support your program evaluation.
Prior to beginning your literature review, you will conduct a review of scholarly and peer-reviewed research from a variety of sources. You may use the Capella library and government websites as locations to begin research for your literature review.
Assignment Instructions
Utilize at least five empirical articles published within the last 10 years in peer-reviewed journals. These articles should be program evaluations dealing with interventions for teen parents. (See the Teen Parenting Case Study given in the resources.) Organize the information into subheadings. The order of your literature review follows:
• Introduction: Orient the reader to the case study topic—teen parenting programs—and tell the reader what to expect in this section by identifying the major subsections that follow in your thesis statement.
• Nature of the problem: Address the prevalence of teen parenting, changes over time, and consequences of teen parenting.
• Causes of the problem: Apply theoretical and social work knowledge to this issue and explain some of the risks associated with teen parenting (for example, mental health outcomes for the parent and abusive parenting practices). The causes you describe here should be directly related to the proposed interventions.
• Interventions: This section should be the most substantive part of this literature review. Review interventions that have been utilized to serve teen parents. Note that this is a literature review, not an annotated bibliography, so you should be integrating your discussion of various studies. Include a paragraph about what is not known about solving the problem and current gaps in knowledge. Assess the guiding practice theory connected to the problem. Also, describe the program evaluation theory connected to the proposed methodology.
• Summary: This section should point out the major areas of knowledge that have yet to be developed regarding this topic and identify the unique contributions your study makes to this need; point out the importance of learning the new information your study will offer.
Problem Statement and Guiding Research Questions
What is the problem this program evaluation is trying to address?
Include your research questions. Since this is a program evaluation, you should have an independent variable and dependent variable clearly stated in your questions.
[u03d1] Unit 3 Discussion 1
Part 2 Due by 11/14/21 by 5pm
5 double-spaced pages
Times New Romans, 12pt, 1 page separate with reference/s, plus 5 pages total of written work with an opening and summarization paragraph. Please insert in text citation. A minimum of 5 references and all within 5 years of 2021. American literature in Social Work
Resources: Cite any preexisting instruments that you choose to use and the textbook in referencing theory of change and organization stakeholders
Program Evaluation and Methodology
Assignment Description
In this assignment, you will describe how to evaluate the program identified in Part 3. Determine the methodology for this program evaluation and indicate other details such as associated research questions, definitions of variables, sampling and data collection procedures, applicable instruments, and discussion of ethical issues pertaining to human subjects.
Assignment Instructions
Using the program identified in part 1 assignment, Research Literature Review, design a program evaluation plan. Use the following outline:
• Introduction: State the topics that will be covered in this section.
• Organization description: Describe the program or service (program focus, resources, population, clients served, and the theory of change). Include a description of the stakeholders and evaluation purpose.
• Research questions and hypotheses: Revisit research questions and hypotheses established in the Unit 3 assignment, Research Literature Review.
• Definition of variables and terms in the study: Define your major variables in a clear and concise manner, and distinguish between independent and dependent variables. Every variable that is identified in the research questions should be defined clearly in this section in terms of what it is and how it will be measured.
• Description of the methodology (study design).
o Explain whether your study is qualitative, quantitative, or both and whether it is cross-sectional (single point in time) or longitudinal (more than one measure from the same people).
o Explain how you are going to determine the efficacy of your program (for example, pre-tests and post-tests, comparison to a similar group of people not receiving program services).
o Explain if you are comparing the group getting the intervention to any other group on the outcomes of interest (a control or comparison group).
o Explain if you are using more than one source of data to triangulate measures of your outcome of interest (for example, rates of participation, qualitative interviews, and a satisfaction survey).
o Explain why this method of program evaluation and methodology is best practice (as compared to other possible models).
• Sampling procedures.
• Distinguish between the population and your sample.
• Provide some basic demographic information that you would anticipate.
• State how many people are taking part in the study and how you will go about sampling them.
• Explain how the control/comparison group will be selected or how people are assigned to that group, if you are using a control/comparison group.
• Instrumentation: Do you plan to use a standardized instrument or will you design your own? Why? Every variable that is addressed in your research questions and operational definitions should also be addressed in this section. Describe the validity and reliability of your instruments. Note that you must include at least one quantitative measure. Include your instruments, including any qualitative interview protocols, in an appendix.
• Data collection and procedures: Describe exactly what you plan to do and when. Explain how and when you will collect each measure, and how and when you will begin the intervention and for how long
• Human protection: Discuss ethical issues pertaining to the method of program evaluation you selected. Discuss how you will address and minimize these issues. Include a sample informed consent (and minor assent, if necessary) as an appendix.
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• Resources: Cite any preexisting instruments that you choose to use and the textbook in referencing theory of change and organization stakeholders.