Chapter 3 of Your Research Project AED 615 Fall 2006 Dr. Franklin

Chapter 3 of Your Research Project AED 615 Fall 2006 Dr. Franklin

The Purpose of the Chapter You have sold your committee and your reader on the idea of your research study or project in Chapter One. You provided the following: Introduction Problem statement Purpose Objectives or research question Limitations Assumption

Chapter Two In Chapter 2 you told us: What is already known about your study topic. How it relates to want you want to find out or write about. How much information already exists, but why you need to create your project or conduct your research. How what you are doing will fill the gap in the knowledge of what we already know and we we don’t know. What sources you have looked at already. What sources you will look for.

Chapter Three - Procedures Begin with a discussion of the intent of the chapter. What is it you intend to describe? For a thesis, this includes: a description of your research method, a description of your population and sample, data collection method, instrumentation, pilot test, reliability and validity data analysis procedures. Provide your Operational Framework

For a Curriculum Project Begin be describing the intent of the chapter. Describe what your curriculum project will look like. Understand that changes or revisions may occur. How will you gather the information to write your project? What will be your sources of information? You should present where you will search for your information, how you will select it, and how it relates back to to your literature review.

Describe the state standards you are addressing. How will each topic you write on relates to the state standards?

Content Validity How will you establish content validity? Who is the audience you intend to write for? Will members of this audience have the opportunity to review samples or drafts of your work? How will teachers (or students) test your work? How will obtain feedback from teachers (or students) to review the work? Does it need to be reviewed for correctness? Completeness? Accuracy?

A discussion of the format. What will the project look like? How many topics will be included? How will illustrations and or photographs be used? Will study questions be written into the unit? Will student activities be included? How will grammar and spelling be checked? If you are writing a student reference unit, how will you determine the reading level of your work?

Where to go for help? Look at existing projects or studies. Examine the format of SRU’s and TRU’s if you are writing a project. What do they have in common? Look at textbooks. Examine chapters that have information you will write about.

Your turn! From our selection, look at the procedures section of the student projects. Develop an outline of what you will include in your Chapter Three. Begin writing the chapter. Prepare to share your information with the class.