Narrowing Your Focus

GRS 602 – Siena Heights @ Lake Michigan College

Thomas JeffersonHe who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. (1854, pp. 180-181)

What Have You Discovered?

And how does it apply to your life?

Where Are We Timeline

My Siena

Writing a Literature Review (YouTube)

How Math Shapes Our World

Ted Talks: Kevin Slavin

Statistics Basics• MEAN: The

average of the set.

• MEDIAN: The center of the set.

• MODE: The number that occurs most often in the group.

2 5

6 7

7 4

1 9

8 7

9 6

5 7

7 10

• MEAN: 100/16 = 6.25

• MEDIAN: 7

• MODE: 7 (occurs 5x)

Statistics Basics• Measure of Dispersion – a number that describes

how the numbers of a set of data are spread out or dispersed.

• Range – The difference between the two extreme values (highest and lowest) in a group of values or a set of data.

Range = Highest value – Lowest value

Find the range of the following values:

83.6, 77.3, 69.2, 93.1, 85.4, 71.6

Range = 93.1 – 69.2 = 23.9

Standard Deviation

Step 1. Find the mean of the set of data

Step 2. Compute the deviation by subtracting the mean from each value

Step 3. Square each deviation

Step 4. Add up the squared deviations

Step 5. Divide by one less than the sample size

Step 6. Find the square root (√ ) of the number obtained in Step 5. This is the standard deviation

Standard deviation tells us the strength (confidence) of the data.

Standard Deviation• How spread out is the data?

(SD1, SD2, SD3 bell curves to the right).

• In science, researchers commonly report the standard deviation of experimental data, and only effects that fall far outside the range of standard deviation are considered statistically significant (95% falls within an SD of 3).

http://www.childrensmercy.org/stats/definitions/stdev.htmhttp://www.robertniles.com/stats/stdev.shtml

Don’t Get Lost in the Math!

Break – Who is Your Peer?Classmate Topic

Conflict Resolution from Female Perspective

Educational Leadership

Engagement, Trust and Leader Effectiveness

Health Care Gender Leadership

Health Care Real Time Location Systems

Hospitality Leadership

Leadership Serving Elderly Populations

Pre-Adolescent Health

Preferential Leadership?

Rural Health Care

The Impact of the Electronic Health Record.

APA Resources

Style

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Funneling

Funneling Your Search & Writing

Funneling = > Focusing Your Lens

Important Literature

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

glennschool.osu.edu/faculty/brown/home/.../Meyer1977.pdf

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick Viewby JW Meyer - 1977 - Cited by 11511 - Related articles

Google (not even Google Scholar)

The Lit Review Journey

It’s not a race among each of you because the only prize for finishing first is being done.

The Lit Review Journey

It’s a five week marathon to go from broad and unfocused to a specific personal understanding that you can apply as well as share with others. It’s a skill you will use again and again the rest of your life.

The Lit Review Journey• 3 Books

• 10-15 Academic journal articles

• Read selectively and wisely– Write a summary paragraph

immediately

• Why? Why? Why?

• Applies to me how?

• Focus, Focus, Focus

The Lit Review Journey

• There is no hypothesis now, because you’re not conducting an experiment.

• If you have an “aha” moment, share it with the rest of us.

• Make decisions, and ask for help. Don’t wait.

• A teaspoon of sugar