Design Idea: EDIT 6900 Assignment Description

EDIT 6900
Design Idea
Assignment Description and Rubric
Mode: Group or Individual (Problem Project Team)
Value: 10 points

updated
12-6-08: w/ suggestions for F09

Purpose of this Assignment
This is an opportunity to plan a research project that would collect data within an educational context.

AASL Standards
4.3 Comprehensive and Collaborative Strategic Planning and Assessment
Other standards may also be involved, depending upon the topic of your research.

Related Themes from this Course

Research methods and techniques
Ethics of research

Task

Restate your Researchable Question, incorporating feedback from that assignment. Note: it may be slightly different from your Problem Project Research Question, which guides the gathering of literature. For this assignment, the question should guide the collection of data.
Restate the Importance of your Study, incorporating feedback. You should provide arguments that explain why this study is important, and what difference it will make.
Restate the context of your study, providing enough background for readers to understand your situation.
Identify the overall methodology for your study.
List each data collection technique you would use, along with each source of data. Some data sources will be the result of data collection (such as survey results), and others may simply be gathered (like circulation records).
List each instrument or item you would develop for the study. Include surveys, interview protocols, etc. You do not need to develop them, but briefly describe each.
Identify who your participants would be (if any), how many (in a range), and how they would be selected.

Guidelines

Concise, bulleted language (rather than narrative) is the most efficient means of communicating your ideas at this stage.
Try to focus on your research question and viable avenues of inquiry to answer that question first.
All parts of your design should be consistent with your research question. This sounds obvious, and yet it is a very difficult part of the research process.
The new portions of this assignment will receive full credit if complete. The restated portions will be evaluated qualitatively, expecting you to have incorporated feedback from the last round.

Submission Format

WebCT dropbox, using similar filenaming patterns as before. Don't forget the rubric.

Evaluation Rubric

Criterion	Value	Your assessment	MAF's assessment
Research question is precise for the purpose of collecting data.	1	.	.
Research question is researchable for the purpose of collecting data.	1
Importance of the Study section provides a compelling argument for conducting the study.	1
Study context section is complete enough to give the reader an adequate understanding of the situation.	1	.	.
Data collection techniques are listed.	2
Data sources are listed.	1	.	.
Instruments and/or materials are listed with brief descriptions.	1	.	.
Participants are described. Method of selection provided. The target number is provided, stated in a range.	1
You self-assessed.	1

Total:

Comments:

12/6-08:
Possible changes for 2009: exemplar = KM; justification includes 3-legged rationale (IP;sch goals;lg); RQ: combine the two crit into 1, it's 2 hard to discriminate; rq matches design.

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