THIS PAPER - is to be on EVALUATION OF EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS ON DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCIES EMPLOYEEDEPLOYMENT program
I will be doing interviews and surveys
I need the first 3 chapters to set me up for the research portion
Chapter 1
Definition of the Problem
Introduction
Introduce your project by telling what is important about the problem you are about to pursue, to your profession. Identify and describe the problem's various components Introduce your research topic in enough detail to "educate" the reader. Remember the readers of your paper have no idea where you work or your problem or situation. Your ability to define the problem will determine whether you have it sharply focused. Your ability to communicate its importance concisely, in writing, will show how well you understand it.
Background of Problem/Situation
Remember that the readers don't know the recent history to this problem/situation. So you will need to bring us all "up to speed" on the history behind the topic.
Purpose of the Study
What do you hope to accomplish with this research?
(given questionnaire and 2structured interviews Questions to be Answered/Objectives to be Investigated I recommend that you limit your questions or objectives to 4-6. Because each of these questions or objectives will become subheading in your Chapter 4 and you will need to provide "data for analysis" for each of the subheading.
Conceptual or Substantive Assumptions
What are your assumptions? (i.e. must the economy be strong for your new business venture to work? Or, will the EEO laws have to be enforced for this study to work?)
Rationale and Theoretical framework
See above( program evaluation)
Refer to the theoretical framework within which your questions resides, this will be fully developed in Chapter 2. What theory or rationale will your study follow? (i.e. will Maslow's Theory of Motivation be the basis of your study? Or, is the rationale that the study showed a certain trend in businesses in California and you want to determine if the same is true in Florida?)
THE STUDENT GUIDE TO THE MSA CAPSTONE PROJECT, Part 1
What is the scope (size, location, numbers) for your study.
Definition of Terms
Define all words that are unique to your industry and are not universally understood by everyone who will read your paper.
Chapter 2
Review of Related Literature
Historical & General Background
What is this history on this topic in the professional journals? What do the local or industry "experts" say?
Existing Studies
Establish the possible need for this study and the likelihood for obtaining meaningful results.
Methodology
Acquaint readers with existing studies relative to what research methodologies have been utilized. Provide enough detail to establish the utility of this methodology in your specific topic.
Instrumentation
Acquaint readers with existing studies relative to what instrumentation has been utilized. Provide enough detail to establish the utility of this instrument in your specific topic.
Significant Studies
Find the most significant study that closely mirrors your problem/situation and establish the possible need for this study and the likelihood for obtaining meaningful results.
Summary of Literature Reviewed
Focusing on your research question, review what is already known and documented. DefiDefine every term and concept you are about to use, showing how it is derived from existing literature.
THE STUDENT GUIDE TO THE MSA CAPSTONE PROJECT, Part 1
Chapter 3
Methodology/Procedures
Research Methodology
What methodology from chapter 2 will you use for your study?
Instrumentation
What instrument are you going to use? (important: many questionnaires/surveys are copyrighted. You will need to receive permission or create your own questionnaire or survey) This subheading is not required for studies using preexisting data.
Field Procedures
How will you distribute your instrument? This subheading is not required for studies using preexisting data.
Data Collection and Recording Procedures How will your instrument be returned? This subheading is not required for studies using preexisting data.
Data Processing and Analysis Procedures How will you analyze your data? What type of statistical model are you utilizing?
Methodological Assumptions
What are the assumptions you have to make with this methodology? (i.e. in a survey you have to assume that they will answer your questions honestly, they know how to read, etc.)
Methodological Limitations
What are the limitations of this method? (i.e. with preexisting data you are limited by the age of the data.)
Validity and Reliability
Explain how you plan to establish the validity and reliability of your field survey instrument
Decision Criteria
When you analyze the data, what Decision Criteria will you apply to the new data?
Researcher would like to evaluate perceptions of the overseas rotation program
7. PROGRAM EVALUATION
a. Statement of Purpose
b. Description of Program Inputs
c. Description of Program Activities
d. Performance Criteria
e. Operational Indicators
f. Research Design and Data Analysis
g. Conclusions and Recommendations
Typical title: "A Program Evaluation of the WIC Program in Clayton County"
(Evaluation of employee perception of unaccompanied job rotation program) program is overseas in a multicultural environment)
A program evaluation, or evaluation research, is the use of systematic methods of empirical investigation to produce information useful for making a judgment about a program's worth or performance, according to specified criteria. It may be an investigation of how and why a program operates as it does, and/or the measurement of the extent to which it has achieved certain objectives or has had certain other outcomes, and at what costs. It may include recommendations about the continuation, modification, or termination of the program. Among the elements of a program evaluation may be the following:
a. Statement of Purpose
Identification of the ways that the collected information might be useful, and the intended or possible users of the information. Possible uses of the information would be to:
(a) demonstrate the quality of a program and gain support for its continuation or expansion,
(b) identify ways that the program could be improved, and/or
(c) impartially compare competing programs or alternative methods or practices. Possible users of the information would be: legislators, budget officers, program sponsors, planners, administrators, service providers, and service recipients. To maximize the utility of the research for particular audiences, it is frequently important to include among the examined variables some which are amenable to manipulation and control.
b. Description of Program Inputs
Description of human and capital resources available to the program, together with information on the program's location, sponsorship, staffing patterns, length of time in operation, and other relevant structural characteristics.
c. Description of Program Activities
Precise description of who has done what to whom, in what sequence, with what resources, under what supervision, within what period of time at what sites, and other relevant dimensions of program operation, so that there may be accurate specification of what program activities account for what effects.
d. Performance Criteria
Presentation of the standards to be used in assessing the merit or the success or failure of the program. This may include a specification of the objectives of the program as well as beneficial and harmful outcomes and impacts that were unintended or unforeseen.
The objectives may include the stated formal objectives or official mandates of the program, and/or objectives formulated by the research or others. Note may be made as to whether the objectives are consistent or conflicting, or varying in importance.
Judgments may be made regarding the time period in which the objectives were to have been achieved or through which the effects were to continue to be felt. The timing and frequency of the measurements will depend on the interest in capturing delayed as well as immediate effects, and temporary as well as permanent effects.
Program objectives may fit into a hierarchy from immediate to ultimate, from lower-order to higher-order. A program evaluation may thus focus on (a) implementation variables in the administrative operation of the program, and/or (b) effectiveness, the extent to which the program as implemented achieved objectives or had other effects.
An implementation or process evaluation is concerned with how the program was established and carried out. It may simply measure "effort" or "utilization" (number of dollars spent, number of manhours or other resources consumed, number of activities performed or services produced, number of persons who received services, etc., and relationships among these variables). Alternatively, the study may investigate the degree to which the program was implemented or used as intended, the causes and consequences of the deviations from various implementation strategies, how well or how poorly the availability and use of resources and the performance of activities met programmatic expectations or standards, or what proportion of eligible users of the program actually used the program.
An effectiveness or outcome or impact evaluation measures the extent to which the program produced chances in the status or behavior of users or had other desirable and undesirable outcomes. The study may include a concern with "adequacy," i.e., actual performance level relative to the level needed to eliminate all or a realistic amount of the total problem or need that existed. Or the study may be concerned with "efficiency," the relationship between the program's benefits and the costs incurred in producing those benefits.
e. Operational Indicators
Translation of each criterion into procedures by which outcomes can be observed and measured, so that it can be determined whether or to what extent the criterion has been satisfied.
f. Research Design and Data Analysis
Description and defense of the strategies used for the collection, reduction, and analysis of data; and presentation of findings based on this analysis. In outcome evaluations, there may be a need for collection and presentation of base-line and post-intervention data on the conditions which the program is intended to change. There must also be identification and, ideally, control (by data collection or statistical procedures) of activities and events occurring within the implementing organization, among the affected groups, or in the larger environment which were not part of the program under study but which may offer competing explanations for any observed changes.
g. Conclusions and Recommendations
Judgments as to whether the program satisfied each of the specified criteria to an acceptable degree, and recommendations on that basis to continue, expand, reduce, modify, or terminate the program. If the level or mix of outcomes is found to be less than ideal, it is important to try to determine whether the results were due to resource inadequacies or other problems in implementation, or to error or underdevelopment in the underlying assumptions about the relationship between program activities and outcomes. Suggestions may be made for replacement of the program with an alternative, or for reforms in program objectives, design, operation, scope, or funding level.
Detailed Question: need this document edited according to apa guidelines as well as attached guidelines. My whole chapter 2 need revision with scholarly journal citing all citing needs to be done over which mean pertinent research must be included that make sense. I was told this makes no sense also can you add references in the word document on the tool bar so I can import when I finish paper. Also a I need reference material attached to review later.
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