Efficacy of eLearning for High School Students

Compose and defend a senior level research project to include a 40-page report and being able to:

Formulate a researchable topic that can be supported by database search strategies.
Seek, collect, and analyze data and relevant information including alternative approaches.
Differentiate among facts, opinions, and biases.
Synthesize and generate solutions, and identify possible outcomes.
Use evidence and reasoning to support conclusions.
Use selected sources after evaluating their suitability based on appropriateness, accuracy, quality, and value of the source, potential bias of the source, the relative value of primary versus secondary sources, empirical versus non-empirical sources, and peer-reviewed versus non-peer reviewed sources
Articulate strengths and limitations of various research designs, including distinguishing between qualitative and quantitative methods. • Distinguish the nature of designs that permit causal inferences from those that do not.

Distinguish between statistical significance and practical significance.
Evaluate the validity of conclusions presented in research reports.
Select and evaluate the accuracy, credibility, and relevance of information sources.
Use technology effectively to organize, manage, integrate, create, and communicate information, and ideas.
Use appropriate software to produce understandable reports of literature, methods, and statistical and qualitative analyses in APA style, including graphic representations of data in order to: quote, paraphrase, and cite correctly from a variety of sources, define and avoid plagiarism, avoid distorting statistical results, honor commercial and intellectual copyrights.