Class Presentation Guidelines.pdf (1 page) 1. What is the general area of develo
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Class Presentation Guidelines.pdf (1 page) 1. What is the general area of development you are interested in? 2. What is the specific question, within this area, that you are interested in? 3. What stage in development does this address (prenatal, infancy, preschool, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood)? What topic area of development does this address (physical, cognitive, social & personality)? 4. What is the title of the article you found that discusses this question? 5. Who were the authors? When was this article written? When was the study that is discussed conducted? 6. Was a study done to explore the answer to this question? 7. What were the methods used by the researcher/author of the article? 8. What were the results of the study? What did the researchers/authors find? 9. Were these results surprising to you? Or, were the results similar to what you initially thought?Explanation / Answer
1. General area of interest is high school kids and how and what type of bullying do they experience.
2. The research questions will be-
3. The study takes as its sample school going adolelescents who ahve been subjected to various bullying behaviors. The articel deals with social and personality aspects of bullying behaviors.
4. The title of article talks about the intervention program developed by Dr. Olweus named as Olweus Bullying Prevention Programme. The aim of this program is to spread awareness regarding the impact of bullying on the psyche of adolescents and also to discourage the propspective bullyers as not to engage in such a behavior.
5. The article has been written by-
Smith, P., Pepler, D. & Rigber, K. in the year 2004 wrote this study.
The research quoted in the study by Dr. Olweus was done in the year 2001.
6. No study was not done to answer the research question. It is not an empirical article.
7. The approach used by the author is a review of the studies on bullying by various researchers.
8. The results of the study indicate that there is a significant reduction in bullying behaviors if adolescents undergo an intervention program that aims at reducing such type of behaviors.
9. No the results are not surprising to me because if an intervention is planned and executed well, there is no doubt about its effectiveness and efficiency.