170 likes | 290 Vues
Note: These steps will be done with the guidance of the course instructors and/or your assigned advisor. IRB training certificate must be completed. Action Research. The Process and Steps. Identify a General Area of Interest. Examples: student word learning, student skill development,
E N D
Note: These steps will be done with the guidance of the course instructors and/or your assigned advisor. • IRB training certificate must be completed.
Action Research The Process and Steps
Identify a General Area of Interest Examples: • student word learning, • student skill development, • technology as an instructional aid, • parent opinion, • use of rubrics to improve learning, • etc.
Think about your classroom, school or district and ask yourself questions such as the following: • What would you like to learn about? • What do you believe is effective or ineffective but there is little data to validate this? • What do you feel needs improvement? • What are the needs of the students?
Tie your classroom, school or district needs to your area of interest and formulate a general idea of what you might do. • In your classroom to increase student learning • In your school or district to improve student learning
Locate at least 8 scholarly research articles that are related to your intended intervention. Read these to locate ideas for making your design more specific. Look for suggestions about • how to group students • how you could teach differently • how to measure student progress • specific instruments for collecting data on student progress, etc. • how to design a survey • how to conduct a structured interview
Summarize these articles according to required guidelines. These will become the content of your Chapter 2 Review of Literature.
Use what you have learned to specifically design your intervention. Address the following: • What is the timeline for your intervention? • Who are your subjects? More on next slide!!!!!
Exactly what will you do? The function of the IRB is to protect the subjects of an intervention and the confidentiality of survey recipients. • If you are conducting a survey, what is your audience? Only collecting information with surveys will not be accepted. • What comparisons will you make: pre-test/post-test, group 1/group 2, method 1/method 2, survey questions/other survey questions? More on next slide!!!!!
What measure of student learning will you collect and how will you score this? • What statistics will you use to measure the effect of your design on the dependent measure: descriptive or inferential? CEDU 549 • How will you attempt to control for extraneous variables as far as it is possible within the confines of your classroom, school or district?
Complete and submit the Institutional Review Board Form. • If you are conducting a survey, the entire survey must be completed and submitted to the IRB with your proposal. • If you have made any specific rubrics, directions, tests, they must be included with your proposal.
While waiting for approval from the IRB … • Begin to write Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of your 5 chapter document. • Submit each chapter to your advisor for feedback.
When IRB approval is granted • conduct your investigation and • collect your data.
Analyze your data • Decide how you will present this data in Chapter 4. Submit IRB completion form to CEDU 520 instructor. • Remember, to use your Chapter 3, as a guide, so it is easy for readers to follow.
Finalize your paper according to guidelines Follow the suggested guidelines carefully. See 599 module: title page, signature page, table of contents, references, appendices, abstract.
Submit to advisor for signature and approval.Be sure you also submit the final checklist.