Refining Your Topic Return to Main PageReturn to Starting to Write Information Power/Refining Your Topic* The refining or narrowing process begins as soon as you select a topic. It will continue until the last draft is written. STEP ONE) Make sure it is something worth doing. STEP TWO) Write something down. STEP THREE) Focus, focus, focus. a) WHO: people or interest groups involved - teenagers - Dominicans b) WHAT: a particular component of the subject - prevention - diagnosis or treatment c) WHEN: a specific time period - within the past 5 years - during the turn of the previous century d) WHERE: a geographic area or location - rural New York State - college campuses e) WHY: its relation to other things - criminal or legal aspects - medical aspects STEP FOUR) Think of questions that you would want your research to address. STEP FIVE ) Consider the whole project. STEP SIX) Stay true to your focus as you continue to refine your topic. *John Henderson, Ithaca College L
The Most Effective Factor in Education Social Theories: Public Health. Boston University Public health is a multi-disciplinary field that aims to 1) prevent disease and death, 2) promote a better quality of life, and 3) create environmental conditions in which people can be healthy by intervening at the institutional, community, and societal level. Whether public health practitioners can achieve this mission depends upon their ability to accurately identify and define public health problems, assess the fundamental causes of these problems, determine populations most at-risk, develop and implement theory- and evidence-based interventions, and evaluate and refine those interventions to ensure that they are achieving their desired outcomes without unwanted negative consequences. To be effective in these endeavors, public health practitioners must know how to apply the basic principles, theories, research findings, and methods of the social and behavioral sciences to inform their efforts. This module will provide an overview of some of the theories you will learn in SB721.
MASON Multiagent Simulation Toolkit [paper] Keith Sullivan and Sean Luke. 2012. Real-Time Training of Team Soccer Behaviors. In Proceedings of the 2012 RoboCup Workshop. [paper] Keith Sullivan, Katherine Russell, Kevin Andrea, Barak Stout, and Sean Luke. 2012. RoboPatriots: George Mason University 2012 RoboCup Team. In Proceedings of the 2012 RoboCup Workshop. [paper] Keith Sullivan and Sean Luke. 2012. [paper] Keith Sullivan, Christopher Vo, and Sean Luke. 2011. [paper] Keith Sullivan and Sean Luke. 2011. [paper] Keith Sullivan, Sean Luke, and Vittorio Ziparo. 2010. [paper] Sean Luke and Vittorio Ziparo. 2010. [paper] Brian Hrolenok, Sean Luke, Keith Sullivan, and Christopher Vo. 2010. [paper] Keith Sullivan, Sean Luke, and Brian Hrolenok. 2010. [paper] Atesmachew Hailegiorgis, William Kennedy, Mark Roleau, Jeffrey Bassett, Mark Coletti, Gabriel Balan, and Tim Gulden. 2010. [paper] William Kennedy, Atesmachew Hailegiorgis, Mark Rouleau, Jeffrey Bassett, Mark Colletti, Gabriel Balan, and Tim Gulden. 2010.
Theory in Human Resource Development NetLogo Home Page NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge. What can you do with NetLogo? Join mailing lists here. Download NetLogo Go to NetLogo Web NetLogo comes with a large library of sample models.
Anderson & Anderson's Change Model Anderson & Anderson’s model of change provides a comprehensive coverage of the entire process of change and equally explains the whole process of change as a cyclical process (Anderson and Anderson, 2001, p. 13). This model briefly views change from three perspectives: Content: It analyzes the technical as well as the organizational factors which require change; People: This analyzes the subjective factors such as the mindset, changes in the behavioral patterns of people as well as the cultural changes; Process: This stage is related with the possible action plans or strategies that can be crafted and implemented for driving the change initaitive successfully across the organziation. All the three processes are integrated and interdependent on each other. Source: Adapted from Anderson and Anderson (2001, p. 15) Phase I - Preparing to Lead the Change Initiative: Any change in an organization is the result of a wake-up call which an employee receives in an organziation.
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