http://thinkphd.com "Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living." - John Dewey Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:33:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So today I finished up the 11th activity in RSH9103QNB and got ready for the 12th as outlined in the syllabus: Consider your study, conduct a mock power analysis using G*Power. Include the results of your power analysis in a word document. Submit these results along with a brief paragraph, ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/03/07/warning-g-power-is-a-time-stealer/ Someone shared a some information about page number formatting in MS Word with the nculearner forum. I took a look at the website and there are a number of helpful documents and tutorials available. The page on page numbering has lots of helpful hints and tips! One of the documents ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/02/28/ms-word-page-numbering-help/ I finished up the 6th of 13 assignments in Activity 6 this evening. The title is "Applying and Interpreting Bivariate Statistics: Tests of Differences." Activity 7 is "Applying and Interpreting Bivariate Statistics: Tests of Association." Each of these are worth 10 points. I cannot upload #6 until Dr. ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/02/21/bivariate-statistics-the-little-nagging-voice/ I haven't written much lately about my PhD journey because I have been very busy with a class I am teaching at the University of Phoenix. I am reworking all of my lesson plans for this class, COM/285 Business Communications. The teaching materials in this class are slim to ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/02/20/plowing-through-papers/ Well, it's been snowing since about midnight and we now have about 5" on the ground. Here's a snow pic for you... I worked about 4 hours yesterday on an assignment in RSH9103QNB and am still not finished. Right now, I am taking a blogging break, then will fill up ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/01/30/snow-in-va/ Northcentral University sent out an email today introducing its new logo. Here's a sneak peak.... http://lp.ncu.edu/newbrand/ The school is rebranding itself! The new logo colors are blue for learning and knowledge, and burnt orange reminds us of Arizona (where the school is located). The two overlapping strips represent the student and faculty ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/01/27/northcentral-university-unveils-new-brand/ I see that NCU has posted new APA 6.0 templates in the Dissertation Center. I see the Concept Paper, Dissertation Manuscript, Dissertation Proposal, and Topic Paper Templates. I haven't had an opportunity to print these out, and will not until much later. It will be a while ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/01/16/new-apa-60-templates/ I am still avoiding turning in assignment 2 in RSH9103NB. This assignment is a first pass at my dissertation questionnaire design. I am still not 100% convinced that my ideas for a questionnaire will work - my biggest concern is the sample. I think it will be ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/01/10/statistics-reviewed-in-rsh9103qnb/ The course I am in right now is RSH9103QNB, Quantitative Methods. You can see from this Sequence chart that this is the third of four RSH (Research) classes at NCU. The student chooses either a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods class for this third course. In this course, ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/01/03/ncu-dissertation-sequence/ I turned in the first assignment today for RSH9103QNB, "Considering Questionnaire Design." My mentor for this course is Dr M, and the course dates are Jan 1 through Mar 26. This first assignment was a book-question-and-answer set from Zikmund's chapter 15. The second assignment is "Hypothetical Questionnaire Design" ... http://thinkphd.com/2010/01/02/rsh9103qnb-quantitative-methods/