1:00
Gathering
Wear your nametag!
Welcome
Special welcome for "new" folks
Overview of today
Advising Sheets: distribute, update, take up (for those still using paper ones)
We'll plan to have a breakette at 2p, if needed
Introductions and Re-Introductions
Course Orientation
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Big ideas for EDIT 7340
SLM research,
research names, and current trends
Middle part of the AP: Design Preparation for Data Collection |
The syllabus; assignment overview
Planner
Our class web site
How this class interlocks with EDIT 6900
Food
Your first assignment: Researchable Question
Things to sign up for:Where is everything? You will have it all if you:
- No TAs this year (amidst austerity doom and gloom). I need everyone to take on a volunteer job.
- Jobs (voluntary)(important!)
- SLM Research Star Exhibition
- We need a Manager.
- Stake your claim on a name - they will disappear fast.
- Do the things listed on the Planner (calendar is there, too). SLM/Grad school dates are listed on the calendar.
- Watch the AP Blog for class-specific news and topics.
- Monitor your email for SLM-L (rare), WebCT emails, direct messages from me or classmates. You can also have the blog come to your email.
- Watch for WebCT notifications. Use your private Discussion Board there for one-on-one Q&A about the AP. This works best for our mutual long-term memory.
- Know your way around the 7340 website and WebCT. I'll use WebCt for private things and Delicious to organize - but will always put pointers to and from.
Reminders:
- It's best to use your UGA email for most course-related activities, including listserv addresses. Fewer bounce, junk-mail problems. If you prefer another account, remember to have your UGA forwarded to it automatically.
Aug 16 | Sep 13 | Sep 27 | Oct 11 | Nov 1 | Nov 15
Planner | Calendar
7340 Home | Syllabus | Assignments | WebCT | Fitzgerald Home
C7 Faces | C7 Assignment Pages | Exhibition Page | Our Photo Album
Day 2 - Sep 13
Intern Session 11a-12; Lunch 12-12:30; 7340 12:30-3p
Room 113
Due: Researchable Question (dropbox)
End of Cycle 1
Day 3 - Sep 27
End of Cycle 2
12:00-3:00, Room 113
12:00 Lunch7340 Home | Assignments | Planner | Weekly Tasks
12:30
Business
Design into Development
- Placeholder for Ethics - Oct 11
- Quick Progress Reports from each person (verbal, 2 min)(this is your deliverable for 10/6)
- Design reprise as needed
Development of Instruments and Materials (the Assignment, due 11/10)
- List each piece
- Examples: questionnaires, pre-tests, interview protocols, observation instruments, lesson plans, consent forms, invitation messages
- Keep timeline in mind
- Take each piece of your design and make it
- Consider pilot testing
Wrapping Up
- Progress report from everyone (if you're not here today, please email me to check in)
- Send me trial balloons, questions as needed
- Can schedule verbal consultations as needed during the week
Trivia
Last Word
Individual conferencing available til 3p
Day 4 - Oct 11
End of Cycle 3
Design and Methodology Day
both classes, all day 9a-3p, room 113
Data collection techniques are like recipes - you need several in your box.
Advisement, both groups
Topics:
Ethics of Research: the IRB (aka Human Subjects) Proposal Process
- Design
- Ethics
- Techniques:
- Surveys
- Interviews
- Focus Groups
- Document/Content Analysis
- The reason why ethical research is crucial: Milgram's obedience experiments; Tuskegee Syphillis Study; Brown-eye Blue-eye/Jane Elliott
- These social experiments all show the power of deception and have been famously controversial. (Results were not uniformly bad, however.)
- Recent example on PBS: Great Britain, matchmaking agency, extensive experiments that did no obvious harm but people needed to know what they were getting into
- Basic ethical principles
- informed consent - participants and their parents (if minors)
- risk - including public exposure; all kinds of possible harm; anonymous or confidential; relation to grades
- distribution of benefit and burden: should not unfairly benefit one group over others
- protection for vulnerable participants
- The IRB process: Click here related materials. (Human Subjects; Guidelines; Applications). This site shows the enormity of the research enterprise at UGA - across all disciplines.
- Class IRB Guidelines
- Resource: Ethical Research from Fullerton (extensive!)
- Bottom line: don't implement any elements of your project without my okay.
- Questions?
Lunch
Putting it All Together
M.Ed. guest?
Ed.S. guest?
2:00-3:00
- Group work for EDIT 6900
- Individual conferencing for EDIT 7340
Day 5 - Nov 1
SLM Research Stars
10:00-3p, virtual
End of Cycle 4
Wear your sunglasses and prepare to be starstruck!
You are strongly encouraged to attend the EDIT 6900 presentations today. Click here for agenda.
Day 6 - Nov 15
Attend Presentations of 6900 9a-12n (optional, but highly recommended)
Room 113
Lunch 12-12:30
7340 meets 12:30-3p
End of Cycle 5
Business
- Spring Dates
- Internship questions
- Marathon preview: open to visitors
- Course Evals (Make sure you're filling out the right one! Once you hit "submit" you can't take it back.)
- Permission Forms
- Advisement Forms: update, date
- Remaining assignments
- A few verbal pointers about the Notebook and the Reflection:
- Do not worry about making the Notebook "pretty."
- Reflections should answer these questions:
- What did you learn from this experience about action research, and how will you apply it on the job?
- How do you feel in terms of being ready for completing your project on time?
Making a difference - "proving" results - how to know if you're doing a good job
Applying what is known to problems - brief (if there are questions)
Data Analysis
bring any samples you might have to discuss (Readings: Farmer 16-17, 28-36). We will discuss this more next semester.