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Applied Project Draft (AP1)
Assignment Description
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Value: 15 points

updated 1-15-09 | C6 blog entry about this assignment
4-6-09: see change notes for 2010

Task
In an online format, assemble all pieces of the applied project together, in the order below.  Respond to all prior feedback. Proofread this draft carefully (not because I will count off much for mistakes, but because each one slows the process down significantly).

Use first person throughout - you are telling the story of what you did and what you learned.

Once again: conciseness is good; there is no need to write volumes of narrative, except for where it seems to be genuinely needed.

Use the Tag List, just for this draft.  Highlight each in yellow - many will appear in headings.  You may remove these tags in subsequent drafts. 

• Overview: From the Researchable Question assignment:
  
• Introduction (write this last): tell us what you will tell us.
• Background: the problem or situation that gave rise to your project
  
• Research Question
• Importance of the study
• Context (if not provided up to this point)
• Review of the Literature (from EDIT 7320)
  
• Provide the graphic you developed in EDIT 7320.
• List the most important relevant literature points in a bulleted format.
  
• Design: From the Project Design (this section explains what you did in past tense and why)
• Overall design identification
• Participants
• Data collection story: techniques, procedures, instruments/materials (as developed in Instruments and Materials assignment)
• Data sources
• Analysis: describe how you analyzed the data (past tense)
• Results
• Objective findings from data with all support charts, tables, etc..  
• Discussion and Conclusion
  
• "Answer(s)" to RQ
• Explanations, interpretations, discussion of findings (may include your labeled subjective expert opinions)
• Conclusions (a list of the things you confidently learned from this project, whether part of the RQ or not)
  
• Recommendations, implications for practice, educational significance (may address to together or as separate sections)
  
• Reflection of what this study meant to you and your practice
• Overall conclusion
• References, Appendices
• Feedback table
• Updated Timeline
• Self-assessment
• Tags applied
  

Submission Format

• As the request of IRB, please add this statement near the front of your project:  "This Applied Project was reviewed under the Instructor Exemption for Class Projects, EDIT 7650 (Applied Project in Instructional Technology), under the direction of Dr. Mary Ann Fitzgerald and Dr. [insert advisor's name if not MAF]."
• Ideally, this project takes the form of a miniature website.  See C7 Examples and Jennifer Parker's.  Be sure to guard privacy of participants.  In a pinch, submit a single Word document into the dropbox.
  
• Send the URL to me and to your advisor.
• Self-assess on the rubric - submit the rubric to the WebCT dropbox.  Include the URL at the top of the rubric.
  
• I plan to submit my feedback in the same Dropbox.
• Mechanics are not evaluated here, but do your best because it saves time.