EDIT 6900
Design Idea
Assignment Description and Rubric
Mode: Group or Individual (Problem Project Team)
Value: 10 points
updated
8-25-09
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. It is appropriate to use the "3-legged
rationale": linking the study to 1). school mission/goals; 2). student
achievement; and 3). SLM* philosophy (IP). (*: If you are not in the
SLM track, substitute your own professional foundational philosophy
here.)
- 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.
Exemplar
Kristie
Michalowski, Fall 2008
Submission
Format
ELC 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 and is
researchable for the purpose of collecting data.
|
1
|
.
|
.
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Importance
of the Study section provides a compelling argument for conducting the
study.
|
1
|
|
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Study
context section is complete enough to give the reader an adequate
understanding of the situation.
|
1
|
.
|
.
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Data
collection techniques are listed.
|
2
|
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Data
sources are listed.
|
1
|
.
|
.
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Instruments
and/or materials are listed with brief descriptions.
|
1
|
.
|
.
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Participants
are described. Method of selection provided. The target
number is provided, stated in a range.
|
1
|
|
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Design
matches Research Question.
|
1
|
|
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You
self-assessed.
|
1
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Update log 2009: 8/25:
refreshed for 2009; added exemplar; 3-legged rationale; streamlined RQ
rubric bit; added RQ matches design.
8/11/08: refreshed
for 2008
11/12/07: submission
details. 9/5/07: created.
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