Conceptualization.

You have been given the concept of “supportiveness” to study in a research project. For example, how supportive are employers toward full-time employees enrolled in higher education programs. Your assignment is to write a minimum 800-word summary to answer the following questions: 1) Specify the dimensions you wish to include and those you wish to exclude in your specific conceptualization of supportiveness. 2) Think of several possible ways to operationalize this concept of supportiveness. In other words, how could you measure supportiveness, based on your conceptualization of it? For example, if you are studying how supportive employers toward full-time employees enrolled in higher education programs, one of the measures would be to ascertain if employers pay tuition for those programs. You must formulate at least 10 statements that can measure supportiveness when used in a questionnaire. Write these statements as line items that researchers would use in a quantitative questionnaire. 3) Consult the Troy or nearest academic library (not Wikipedia) to discover how other researchers have measured supportiveness. Explain your findings. Cite your sources. You can access the Troy library online. I need at least three other studies described in your summary. Do not merely cite the studies. 4) When you consult research, also ascertain how researchers have gone about demonstrating the trustworthiness of their measures of supportiveness. Examine your findings to explain what reliability methods each researcher has used? What validity approaches have been employed by each researcher? C