Prompt:
Instructions
Students will be answering a single prompt for this compr
Prompt:
Instructions
Students will be answering a single prompt for this comprehensive exam that must be addressed [See the specific prompt below]. Based on the prompt below you are to develop a research proposal. This proposal must include the following, in order, using headings & subheadings:
1. Introduction: within the introduction you must provide a synthesis of applicable original research literature. All articles must directly relate to the prompt. A minimum of ten articles must be actively reviewed and analyzed.
2. Identify a gap in the literature, based solely on the articles reviewed here, and a purpose statement for your proposed research study.
3. Methodology: you are to design an original, quantitative study with an experimental intervention. This intervention cannot be a previously published study design and must present a logical extension of the studies reviewed to address the gap in the reviewed literature.
Within this section, you need to discuss, in order:
a. Study Design/Experimental approach to the problem
b. Research Question(s): a minimum of one clear research question which is clearly aligned with the gap in the literature and purpose statement above must be developed.
c. Hypotheses: Include a directional and null hypothesis
d. Participant Information: inclusion/exclusion criteria, number of participants, population, etc.
e. Procedures:
i. Detailed step by step instructions of testing and intervention procedures
1. Use separate subheadings for each outcome measure and intervention
2. The intervention [and ONLY the intervention; ie. your program] can be in a table/appendix format.
ii. Instrumentation
iii. Reliability and validity data
f. Statistical Analysis
Formatting
The entire comprehensive exam is to be no more than ten pages [double-spaced], not including reference list, tables/figures/appendices [which only the program intervention can be in a table/appendix]. Exams that exceed this page number, will result in review teams stopping their review after ten pages. Information must be cohesively and succinctly presented.
All resource material must come from scholarly, empirically based, peer-reviewed sources that involve original research studies (not reviews) directly related to the prompt. If you include sources that are review articles, be advised they do not count towards the 10-article minimum. Any textbooks which are cited should be graduate level and do not count toward the 10-article minimum. The introduction must offer a scholarly integration of information and a critical appraisal of the current body of literature. It should not be written in a summary style, list, or annotated bibliography of what has been done.
If you have a complex intervention [item 3.e.i.2.], you have the option to develop a table/appendix for only the intervention and this will not impact your page number. Make sure to refer to all tables/figures/appendices within the text of your exam.
The structure of this exam is to align with submission guidelines for peer-reviewed journals in our field. You are encouraged to review how manusсrіpts are structured to assist you, but please note that you must follow all 7th Edition APA formatting guidelines. You are to use headings and subheadings according to instructions 1-3 listed above to organize your paper. All work must be individually and uniquely prepared for the purposes of this comprehensive exam.
The student must present their content in the order listed above, using headings & subheadings. Students not following the set order will automatically fail and not receive reviewer feedback on any part of their exam.
Prompt
Population: athletes
Intervention: aerobic exercise
Topic: mitochondrial density