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A Case Study with an Identified Bully:
Policy and Practice Implications

Lillie B. Huddleston, EdS
Kris Varjas, PsyD
Joel Meyers, PhD
Catherine Cadenhead, PhD

Georgia State University, Counseling and Psychological Services, Atlanta, GA

Supervising Section Editor: Monica H. Swahn, PhD, MPH
Submission history: Submitted January 20, 2011; Revision received January 21, 2011; Accepted March 7, 2011
Reprints available through open access at http://scholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem.

Objective: Bullying is a serious public health problem that may include verbal or physical injury
as well as social isolation or exclusion. As a result, research is needed to establish a database for
policies and interventions designed to prevent bullying and its negative effects. This paper presents
a case study that contributes to the literature by describing an intervention for bullies that has
implications for practice and related policies regarding bullying.

Methods: An individualized intervention for an identified bully was implemented using the
Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Model (PCSIM; Nastasi, Moore, & Varjas, 2004) with a
seventh-grade middle school student. Ecological and culture-specific perspectives were used to
develop and implement the intervention that included psychoeducational sessions with the student
and consultation with the parent and school personnel. A mixed methods intervention design was
used with the following informants: the target student, the mother of the student, a teacher and the
school counselor. Qualitative data included semi-structured interviews with the parent, teacher and
student, narrative classroom observations and evaluation/feedback forms filled out by the student
and interventionist. Quantitative data included the following quantitative surveys (i.e., Child Self
Report Post Traumatic Stress Reaction Index and the Behavior Assessment Scale for Children).
Both qualitative and quantitative data were used to evaluate the acceptability, integrity and efficacy
of this intervention.

Results: The process of intervention design, implementation and evaluation are described through
an illustrative case study. Qualitative and quantitative findings indicated a decrease in internalizing,
externalizing and bullying behaviors as reported by the teacher and the mother, and a high degree of
acceptability and treatment integrity as reported by multiple stakeholders.

Conclusion: This case study makes important contributions by describing an intervention that is
targeted to specific needs of the bully by designing culture specific interventions and working with
the student’s unique environmental contexts. Contributions also are made by illustrating the use of
mixed methods to document acceptability, integrity and efficacy of an intervention with documented
positive effects in these areas. In addition, implications for policy and practice related to the
treatment of students identified as bullies and future research needs are discussed. [West J Emerg
Med 2011;12(3):316-323].

INTRODUCTION
Bullying is one of the most significant school problems

experienced by children and adolescents and affects

approximately 30% of students in U.S. public schools.1 This
included 13% as bullies, 10.6% as victims and 6.3% as
bully-victims.2 Bullying has been defined as repeated exposure

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to negative events within the context of an imbalanced power
relationship.3 Bullying is a serious public health problem that
may include verbal or physical injury, as well as social
isolation or exclusion.3-4 As a result, research is needed to
establish a database for interventions designed to prevent
bullying and its negative effects within the context of school
policies.4

Researchers have found that bullying may have
deleterious effects for both perpetrators and victims, including
social, emotional, mental health and academic concerns,
as well as loss of instructional time.5-12 For example, a
relationship has been found between bullying behavior
and internalizing problems (i.e., depression and anxiety),
as well as externalizing problems (i.e., aggression and
hyperactivity).11-12 Further, bullies have been found to have
more conduct problems and less favorable views of school
than their non-bullying peers, which may lead to academic
disengagement.5

Rationale for the Case Study
The purpose of this case study is to describe the

implementation of an individualized psychoeducational
intervention with an identified bully and to report the
outcomes of the intervention in terms of acceptability,
integrity and efficacy.13 This case study was unique because
we used mixed methods (i.e., both qualitative and quantitative
methods) to contribute to the database on acceptability,
integrity and efficacy by providing a rich description of
the cultural and contextual variables that may influence the
implementation and outcomes of the intervention.14 This case
study was distinctive because it used the Participatory Culture-
Specific Intervention Model (PCSIM) to design, implement,
and evaluate the intervention.15 Based on an ecological-
developmental stance, PCSIM addresses individual and
cultural factors related to mental health and promotes cultural
competence using culturally valued resources and coping
skills. 16-18 PCSIM uses an iterative data collection process that
incorporates feedback from stakeholders to promote treatment
acceptability and cultural validity, treatment integrity and
efficacy.15 The research questions were: (1) What was the
nature of acceptability from the perspectives of stakeholders?
(2) What was the treatment integrity of intervention
implementation? (3) Was there a reduction in this student’s:
(a) externalizing symptoms, (b) internalizing symptoms and
(c) bullying behaviors?

METHOD
Context and Informants

We conducted this study in a southeastern urban public
school district with 2,484 students and 499 students at the
target middle school. The population was diverse with respect
to ethnicity (approximately 40% African American, 52%
Caucasian, 2% Asian, 2% Hispanic and 4% multiracial) and

socioeconomic status (30% free and reduced lunch). The
research team had an ongoing collaborative relationship with
this school district for eight years.19 Bullying behavior was
addressed in the district discipline policies, which were
distributed to students at all grade levels. The school response
to bullying depended on severity and could include: student
participation in a conference with school personnel,
assignment to alternative lunch area, partial or full day
in-school suspension (ISS), out of school suspension, financial
restitution for the repair of any damage, or consideration of an
alternative placement for up to 10 school days.

The informants included the mother of the target student,
the interventionist, a classroom teacher, the seventh-grade
school counselor and the target student. The target student’s
mother, Ms. S., was an African-American woman who worked
in the education field. The interventionist was an African-
American female doctoral-level school psychology graduate
student who was certified as a school psychologist and had 10
years of classroom teaching experience. The seventh grade
counselor was an African-American female masters-level
school counselor who had been employed by the district for
many years. Based on the tenets of PCSIM, stakeholders
participated as informants by providing data to develop
intervention goals and to assess intervention acceptability,
integrity and efficacy.15

Qualitative Data
Interviews

All interviews were semi-structured and produced
qualitative data. Interviews were conducted with the mother,
teacher and the target student. Interviews were conducted with
all informants prior to intervention to facilitate development
of the intervention sessions. The pre-intervention student
interview was audio taped, transcribed and coded for major
themes. The interventionist took ethnographic notes during
all other interviews. Teacher and parent interviews were
conducted post-intervention to enhance outcome data. Parent
interview questions included a focus on the target student’s
behavior at home and school, parent concerns related to his
behavior, and the results of previously employed strategies.
The course instructor, which this student received the lowest
conduct grade, participated in data collection (i.e., interviews,
observations, and surveys). Examples of the questions from the
student, teacher and parent interviews are reported in Table 1.

Behavioral observations
The referred student was observed in structured

(classroom) and less structured settings (hallway, lunch) to
determine the frequency and nature of bullying behaviors
and to aid in intervention development. We used a narrative
approach (i.e., rich description) for conducting behavioral
observations to gain information regarding peer and teacher
interactions.

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Evaluation/Feedback Forms
We used qualitative student evaluation and interventionist

feedback forms to gather narrative information related to
intervention implementation, including acceptability and
integrity of the intervention. The student feedback forms were
completed at the end of each intervention session and were
used to determine what the participant liked about the session,
as well as what he would change about the session. The
interventionist feedback form was completed following each
session and provided documentation about culture-specific
modifications as well as treatment acceptability and self-
assessment of the interventionist’s performance.

Quantitative Measures
Behavior Assessment Scale for Children: Second Edition

The Behavior Assessment Scale for Children (BASC-2)
was administered to the teacher, parent and student pre- and
post-intervention.23 These data from the student were not
considered because of observations indicating that the student
did not read the items carefully and, instead, provided invalid
responses. The BASC-2 is a behavior rating scale that was
designed to evaluate personality characteristics, emotions,
self-perceptions or parent/teacher perceptions of adolescents.
At-risk T-scores range from 60 to 69 while T-scores of 70 or
above are considered clinically significant. This instrument
has high test-retest reliability (r = .91) and internal consistency
(α = .89).23 We used the internalizing, externalizing and
bullying scales for this case study.

Child Self Report Post Traumatic Stress Reaction Index
The Child Self Report Post Traumatic Stress Reaction

Index (CPTS-RI) was administered before and after the
intervention to determine change in symptoms related to
post-traumatic stress experienced by the target student.20 The

CPTS-RI was used to supplement information provided by the
BASC-2 regarding internalizing problems. The CPTS-RI has
high internal consistency (α = .86) and test-retest reliability
(r = .84). Although the CPTS-RI does not yield standard
scores, raw scores of 38 and above have been described as
clinically significant in previous research.21,22

Qualitative Data Analysis Procedures
The qualitative data (interviews, observations, &

evaluation feedback forms) were subject to thematic analysis
by having one coder read through each piece of data to
create a list of themes that were reflected by these data.24 We
employed a deductive approach to coding in which the coder
identified information regarding externalizing, internalizing
and bullying behaviors in the data.17 After the first coder had
read through all data to generate a list of themes, a group of
three coders read through all of the data again and used a
consensus-based approach to confirm or modify each theme.
This team also selected quotes illustrating these themes.25

Quantitative Data Analysis Procedures
We analyzed the pre/post quantitative data (internalizing

and externalizing from the BASC-2) using a two-step process
that included calculation of the Reliable Change Index
(RCI) and determination of whether an observed change
was clinically significant.26-28 We calculated the RCI based
on the standard error of measurement or reliability of the
instrument and the student’s pre- and post-scores for each
instrument. We used the following formula based on Jacobson
& Truax (RCI = X2 – X1/Sdiff). Sdiff is calculated by taking the
square root of 2(SE)

2, where SE is the test’s standard error of
measurement.27 RCI scores of 1.96 or greater are considered
to be statistically significant. Mean scores from the CPTS-RI
and bullying content scales were analyzed descriptively. We

Table 1. Sample interview questions asked of the bullying student, his parent and teacher.

Student Parent Teacher
What is the worst thing you ever did? (or,
just name some bad thing you’ve done).

Describe your concerns related to your
child’s behavior.

Describe your child’s classroom behavior.

What is the worst thing that has happened
to you?

How long have you been concerned about
your child’s behavior?

How does he interact with adults?

What is the best thing you ever did? (or,
just name some good thing you’ve done).

What kind of behavioral strategies have
been implemented? What was the
outcome?

How does he interact with peers?

What is the best thing that has happened
to you?

What are your child’s strengths/interests? Describe his academic performance.

What things get you upset or mad? Why? Describe your parenting style. Describe your classroom behavioral
expectations.

What do you do when angry? How does your child relate to his sibling
and other family members?

What strategies have been implemented to
improve his classroom behavior?

What do your parents do when you do
things that you shouldn’t?

Have there been any recent significant
changes in the home environment?

What was the outcome?

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did not calculate RCI scores for these two variables because
standard scores are not reported for the CPTS-RI and there
are insufficient data about reliability and standard error of
measurement for these two instruments.

Background of the Case Study
The target student for the intervention was David, a

12-year-old African-American student in the seventh grade.
David’s mother (Ms. S.) provided background and medical
information. David lived with his mother and nine-year-
old sister. His family history included a recent martial
separation. However, regular contact with his father was
maintained through weekend and extended holiday visitation.
David’s medical history included a diagnosis of Attention
Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, which was managed through
medication and counseling.

Reason for referral
David was referred for the bullying intervention by

members of the administrative and counseling staff and was
described as a “provocative bully” by administrators and
teachers. An administrator indicated that David had a tendency
to “annoy” his peers verbally until they “reach[ed] their limit”
and as a result became physically aggressive with him. The
administrator described David’s behavior as verbal bullying.
The school counselor expressed concerns about his limited
ability to engage in prosocial interactions with peers and
school personnel, as David appeared to “ignore the comments
of adults” and seemed unaware of how his actions or remarks
were perceived by peers. Ms. S. (David’s mother) expressed

concern that her son was becoming verbally aggressive in
reaction to being bullied at school. She cited school reports
of inappropriate comments to teachers and peers as evidence
of David’s verbal aggression and indicated that his bullying
behaviors persisted or escalated irrespective of school and
home interventions. Ms. S. and the school personnel stated
that they were interested in determining the best ways to
intervene.

INTERVENTION
Data obtained from interviews, surveys, review of records

and observations were used to develop an individualized eight
session intervention to address David’s bullying behavior.29
Intervention sessions are described in Table 2 including the
sessions, the goals, and cultural modifications that resulted in
the individualization of the curriculum.29

RESULTS
Consistent with the PCSIM, we evaluated this case

by examining both the process and the outcomes of the
intervention that was implemented with a student who
had been identified as a bully-victim. We answered the
acceptability, integrity, and efficacy of the intervention for this
case study.15,30-32

Acceptability: Research Question 1
We defined acceptability as the extent to which

stakeholders (e.g., mental health professionals, parents,
teachers and students) find a particular treatment or
intervention to be fair, appropriate, reasonable and consistent

Table 2. Sessions, goals, and cultural modifications used to individualize the curriculum.

Session Goal(s) Cultural Modifications
#1 Clinical Interview Explore individual student characteristics; collect

pertinent background information.
Increased the amount of time for rapport building
due to the participant’s reluctance to disclose
personal information.

#2 Collage Increase awareness of positive feelings, likes, and
self-awareness of culturally valued competencies.

Emphasis on drawing activity instead of dialog
focused activity to allow the participant to disclose
information indirectly.

#3 School map Identify safe and unsafe spaces and the people or
policies that contribute to those safe and unsafe
spaces at school.

Emphasis on drawing activity instead of dialog
focused activity to allow the participant to disclose
information indirectly.

#4 Ecomap Identify supportive, stressful, and ambivalent
relationships in their schools, families, and
communities; Develop strategies to improve, maintain
or cope with key relationships

Emphasis on drawing activity instead of dialog
focused activity to allow the participant to disclose
information indirectly.

#5 and #6 Empathy Expand empathic reasoning ability. Challenge beliefs
related to empathy.

Use of examples from the participant’s family history
to make the activity more relevant.

#7 Anger Management Learn prosocial ways to express negative emotions. Use of scenarios based on teacher and counselor
reported incidents.

#8 Problem-solving Learn 5-step problem solving model; Learn to apply
model to bullying situations.

Use of scenarios based on classroom observations.

Note. Adapted with permission of the authors.29 Please contact second author for more details regarding the curriculum.

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with their expectations of treatment.31 We collected
acceptability data through parent, facilitator, student and
teacher report and used data to modify the curriculum in an
effort to increase acceptability and efficacy.15 For example,
David reported in the session evaluation that activities that
were less contingent upon verbal interaction were more
acceptable than those that required him to discuss emotions.
Through the recursive process of the PCSIM, subsequent
sessions were adapted to allow for choice between various less
verbally demanding tasks, such as those that allowed David to
respond to the curriculum by creating artwork such as
drawings or collages.16

Examples of high acceptability also were revealed through
post-intervention data obtained from all stakeholders. For
example, Ms. S. indicated that she viewed the intervention
as an important resource to address her son’s social deficits
related to interpersonal relationships with peers and family
members. David’s teacher acknowledged the value of the
intervention as a reinforcement tool by informing David of her
ongoing communication with the interventionist to encourage
him to behave appropriately in order to have positive remarks
relayed about his behavior. We also obtained measures of
acceptability from the interventionist after each session,
suggesting that initial sessions were less acceptable due to the
resistance encountered and the slow development of rapport
between the interventionist and the target student. However,
treatment acceptability increased during subsequent sessions as
rapport developed due to curriculum modifications made based
on student feedback (i.e., less verbal input was required).

Integrity: Research Question 2
We defined integrity as the degree to which core program

elements are implemented and cultural adaptations are
documented.15 This study employed a partnership model to
maintain treatment integrity, by focusing on collaboration
with stakeholders in order to be culturally responsive
while maintaining the essential components and content of
the intervention.30 We obtained integrity data through the

interventionist feedback forms to evaluate the ways in which
session goals were met. Based on a thematic analysis of
these forms, treatment integrity was high as session goals
were met in all of the intervention sessions (meeting the
threshold of greater than 80% implementation of intervention
components).31

Efficacy: Research Question 3a –Externalization
We collected qualitative and quantitative results related to

David’s externalizing behaviors from the teacher and parent
report. The teacher reported in an exit interview that David
no longer engaged in disruptive activities after completing
assignments but instead chose to read. David’s mother
reported a decrease in the number of phone calls received
regarding disciplinary concerns from the school during and
after the intervention. There was a clinically significant
difference in the teacher pre- and post-intervention BASC-2
scores reflecting reduced externalizing behaviors (RCI = –
3.74). There was no change indicated by the parent pre- and
post-test BASC-2 scores on externalizing behaviors (Table 3).

Efficacy: Research Question 3b- Internalization
The school counselor reported that David was less

withdrawn at the end of the intervention. For example, she
indicated that he made eye contact and acknowledged the
statements or requests of school personnel, which were skills
addressed in sessions related to empathy and perspective
taking. Although David’s CPTS-RI raw score of 20 did
not meet the threshold of clinical significance (i.e., 38 and
higher), his post-intervention score of seven suggested a
lower perception of internalizing symptoms associated with
post-traumatic stress after the intervention. Specifically, he
indicated that he had fewer bad dreams and was better able to
concentrate at school. Quantitative findings from the BASC
-2 included a clinically significant decrease in Internalizing
Behaviors based on Teacher report (RCI = -3.79). However,
there was no change related to internalizing symptoms based
on parent report.

Table 3. Pre-post scores for internalizing, externalizing and bullying.

Respondent Composite/Scale Pre-test Post-test Degree of Change
Teacher BASC-II Externalizing Problems 66 58 RCI = -3.33*
Teacher BASC-II Internalizing Problems 61 46 RCI = -3.54*
Teacher BASC-II Bullying 66 59 Clinical Change**
Parent BASC-II Externalizing Problems 61 61 0
Parent BASC-II Internalizing Problems 39 41 RCI = .44
Parent BASC-II Bullying 62 62 No Change
Student Internalizing Problems 20 7 Descriptive Evidence of Change***

* Statistically Significant change (Reliable Change Index [RCI] > 1.96)
** While RCI could not be calculated this represented clinical change from the at risk range to normal limits.
*** While RCI could not be calculated with this measure, there was a substantial magnitude of change on this measure.

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Efficacy: Research Question 3c- Bullying
The results of the BASC-2 completed by his teacher

revealed that David’s bullying behavior decreased based on
pre-post test data. His score on the bullying content scale from
the teacher BASC-2 decreased from the at-risk range (SS = 66)
to within normal limits (SS = 59) for students his age. Ms. S.
reported no change on the parent BASC-2 from pre- (SS= 62)
to post-test (SS = 62) in regards to David’s bullying behavior.
However, as mentioned earlier, she reported the number of
discipline referrals decreased during and after the intervention.
Further, qualitative findings from school personnel also
suggested improvement in David’s behavior after the
intervention. Additional support for positive change in this
area is that there were no additional counseling or disciplinary
referrals for the remainder of the school year (Table 3).

Discussion
This case study contributes to the literature related to

intervention with bullies by providing an in-depth description
of a promising intervention model and by using mixed
methods resulting in evidence that this intervention had high
acceptability, integrity and efficacy.13 Using the PCSIM, this
intervention successfully integrated data about the culture of
bullying within the target school, as well as using knowledge
gained through collaboration with parents, teachers and school
personnel. 15,20 This psychoeducational intervention engaged
multiple stakeholders, including school personnel, the mother,
and the target student, to facilitate intervention acceptability
and integrity and thereby increased the likelihood that the
desired outcomes would be achieved.15,30 Further, the use of
mixed methods and multiple informants strengthened validity
of the intervention and evaluation by examining findings
across multiple informants and multiple sources of data.14

An important finding in this case study was related to the
efficacy of this intervention. Based on prior literature, the
referral concerns and the pre-intervention data, the
intervention was designed to reduce behaviors and symptoms
associated with externalization, internalization, and
bullying.11-12 Predicted reductions in externalizing behaviors
and bullying were partially confirmed with quantitative
findings reflected by the RCI for externalization and clinical
significance on the bullying scale from the BASC-2.26-28
Additional support was provided by qualitative data from
interviews and observations. Similarly, the predicted
reductions for internalization were partially confirmed based
on the RCI for internalization on the BASC-2 as well as by
descriptive data from the CPTS-RI. These quantitative
findings were confirmed by qualitative data obtained from
school personnel. However, it is noted that the findings for
internalizing were not supported by parent report.

The participatory approach to problem identification
and intervention development incorporated in the PCSIM
was successful in several ways.15 For example, school
personnel and the target student’s mother identified ongoing

communication with the interventionist as a strength of the
intervention. This enabled teachers to provide insight into the
daily interactions of the students, the previous intervention
efforts of school personnel, and an overview of the student’s
social, emotional and academic strengths and challenges.
Further, collaboration with the interventionist provided
teachers with an opportunity to experience the target student
in a different light by examining the influence of family
context on the student’s behavior. This interaction between
stakeholders and the interventionist exemplified the recursive
nature of the PCSIM and illustrated the potential importance
of mental health consultation in facilitating positive outcomes
when intervening with bullies.15,33

LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH
Since this case study was conducted with a single

participant, more research is clearly needed to demonstrate the
acceptability, integrity and effectiveness of this individualized
intervention with identified bullies. In addition, given the
range of findings from both the parent and teacher, future
efforts should be designed to include input over time from
multiple participants and to use these data for recursive
revision of intervention plans. School-based (e.g., school
counselors, school psychologists, school nurses) and
mental health practitioners are uniquely qualified to design
and implement culture-specific interventions for bullies
in schools by using their relationships with stakeholders,
along with ongoing data collection, to increase intervention
acceptability, integrity and efficacy.15 Future research may
include a greater emphasis on systematic evaluation of
the processes used to consult with educators and parents,
particularly since educators and parents can have different
views, while also having great potential to influence children.
Based on information gained through the iterative process
of the PCSIM, the intervention might be used as a method
of primary prevention by extending it to younger students.15
Further, research is needed to examine the range of ways
that this intervention may need to be modified to address the
characteristics of other bullies and their unique cultural and
ecological circumstances. Such modifications might include
multiple sessions per week, meeting with members of the
target student’s peer group, and a greater focus on behavior
management strategies.

POLICY AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS
This case study has important implications for practice in

the context of public policy. While the ideas discussed in this
paper may have the potential to create meaningful change in
some bullies, it requires intense levels of data collection and
analysis to address the acceptability, integrity and efficacy of
this type of intervention. This requires a public commitment to
the expense needed to carry out such intervention effectively.
It also may require research based on public health models
that seek less expensive methods of intervention and that

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emphasize a full range of preventive interventions, including
primary prevention.4 In this context, it is noted that policies in
place within a school, school district and/or community may
play a role in strengthening intervention efforts.4 For example,
the intervention described in this paper was implemented in
the context of school policies that did not tolerate bullying and
that had clear guidelines for school responses to bullying. Also,
schools policies of service delivery referred to as response to
intervention that include a simultaneous focus on a range of
services including primary prevention, risk reduction, secondary
prevention and tertiary prevention.34 Research is needed to
develop an understanding about the impact of such policies on
the efficacy of individualized interventions such as this.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to thank the student, parent, and school

personnel who participated in this intervention. Funding
for this work was supported by the American International
Group, Inc. Additional funding was provided by the Center for
School Safety, School Climate, and Classroom Management
and the College of Education Dean’s Office at Georgia State
University.

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Kris Varjas, Counseling &
Psychological Services, P.O. Box 3980, Atlanta, GA, 30302-3980.
E-mail: kvarjas@gsu.edu.

Conflicts of Interest: By the WestJEM article submission agree-
ment, all authors are required to disclose all affiliations, funding
sources and financial or management relationships that could be
perceived as potential sources of bias. The authors disclosed none.

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Subject Matter: Reflection Includes: · Purpose of the study · Description of the problem · The role of the writer or writers. The methodology used in the study. · The selected solutions for the problem · The results of the actions taken · Next steps that should be taken Critique Includes: · Important information about the participants in this study that has been learned · Important information that comes from the study · How this study could generalize to other settings, such as an organization or a corporation At least 2 research questions are included that might follow from the findings of this study

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Format–10% · The paper includes the following APA criteria; title page, page numbers, running head and reference page if applicable · The correct APA formatting and content are followed for the APA tools listed in bullet 1 above · Headings are used throughout the body of the paper that mirrors subject matter content expectations · Paper is laid out effectively–uses, heading and other reader-friendly tools · Paper is neat/shows attention to detail Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling–10% · Rules of grammar, usage, punctuation are followed · Spelling is correct Readability/Style–10% · Sentences are complete, clear, and concise · Sentences are well-constructed with consistently strong, varied structure · Transitions between sentences/paragraphs/sections help maintain the flow of thought · Words used are precise and unambiguous · The tone is appropriate to the audience, content, and assignment

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