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Homework: Writing
Your Policy Analysis Project will be completed in six parts throughout this course. It is intended to allow you to apply your analytical skills in assessing and evaluating education policies for effectiveness. You will select a contemporary educational policy issue and conduct an analysis in incremental parts. Each part will build upon the others.
For this second part of the Policy Analysis Project series of homeworks, you will continue writing your policy analysis report using the Eightfold Path to assemble some evidence. You will provide your client with quantitative data evidence that the chosen topic is worth investigating.
Instructions
Using the same Policy Analysis Project Template file used for the previous homework (incorporating any needed changes identified in your instructor's feedback), complete the Evidence or Pre-Existing Policies section for your selected topic. You will also add the sources used for this section in the Sources Consulted or Recommended section. Get the instant assignment help.
I. Review the Eightfold Path manual and Chapter 4 of your Weimer and Vining (2017) textbook.
II. In the Evidence or Pre-Existing Policies section of the template, compose a well-written quantitative statement of at least 500 words that provides evidence that your problem is indeed an issue worth studying. The presentation of accumulated evidence can be overwhelming for the reader; therefore, organize your quantitative data into three subsections of evidence (e.g., IPEDS, journal article data, professional news sources) or pre-existing policies. Provide a thorough explanation for each.
Your writing style and formatting must follow the Preface example in the Weimer and Vining (2017) textbook and Appendix A in the Bardach and Patashnik (2020) textbook. This section of the report requires significant data and data analysis. The best practice is to use benchmarking and comparative analysis against the national, regional, state, or competitor data.
III. Sources Consulted or Recommended: This section is essentially an annotated bibliography if the decision maker has the interest and time to read up on a specific source. You will add your sources and annotations to this template section for each part of the project you complete. For this part of the project, at least two authoritative sources (and their corresponding annotations) are required to support your claims and conclusions. (Note: The final written report for this project requires at least three sources used must be scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles published within the last five years.)