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Heading 1: Introduction (review and revise from Week 1 assignment)
( I HAVE ATTACHED MY WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT IN THE DROP FILES)
Purpose and Significance of the Proposed Study: In one paragraph,
-Describe your current professional role and setting. ( I’m a early childhood educator at a Early Head Start Center)
1. Explain the purpose of your study and the student outcomes you want to influence. ( My purpose of study is What is the significance of incorporating games into the classroom to support early childhood learning and development?)
2.Discuss the literature or research that indicates why this is an important area to address in education.
– Explanation of Problem: In 1 paragraph.
1. Explain the statement of the problem or situation that led to this interest or why you want to pursue this topic.
Use scholarly research to support your choice of problem or situation.
-Population: In one paragraph,
1. Describe the target population (gender, race, age or grade, quantity of participants, students or adults).
Explain why you have chosen this target population for the study, including details about why this population is appropriate for the study.
– One Research Question:
( My research question is What is the significance of incorporating games into the classroom to support early childhood learning and development?)
1. Develop one research question that aligns with your statement of problem or situation and clearly addresses what you hope to answer and influence in this proposed study.
2.The question needs to be answerable and it must appropriately represent the population or participants you identified.
Heading 2: Literature Review (review Week 2 assignment, in paragraph form; do not use the tables.) (I HAVE ATTACHED MY WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT IN THE DROP FILES!!!)
-Relevant early childhood education theories for your discipline specific action research proposal: In one paragraph,
1. Describe one to two early childhood education theories that could be used to support your proposal.
-Basic terminology and concepts related to the issues you will discuss:
1. Provide an alphabetized list of research related terms and definitions from scholarly or credible resources. This list is used to help the reader, who may be unfamiliar with your topic, understand your proposal.
-Two research summaries:
1. Select two scholarly or credible research articles.
2. Summarize the intervention, strategies, procedures, and instruments used in the chosen study that have been found to be productive in investigating your topic and area of focus.
-Application of findings and author’s position:
1. Determine the intervention that you will use to address your area of focus, based on your review of the literature.
2. Discuss why you feel this intervention is the best approach for your action research study and why you believe it meets the needs you have outlined in statement of problem.
3. Explain any changes you will make to the intervention based on the study you have outlined. For example, do your classroom, school, center, or organizational needs differ from those in the study.
Heading 3: The Proposed Study/Research (review from Week 3 assignment) I HAVE ATTACHED MY WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT IN THE DROP FILES!!!)
-Intervention Plan:
1.Describe in chronological order how you will implement your intervention and provide a hypothetical yet practical timeframe for these steps.
– You may include a chart that organizes how you would implement your intervention from week to week.
1. This will be a timeline including dates and tasks.
2. Your chart could include date, tasks, people, location, etc.
– Ethical Considerations: Informed Consent and Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval: In one paragraph,
1. Discuss how you would approach informed consent and IRB Approval if you were to implement your action research study.
2. Explain how you would ensure that participants enter the research of their free will and with an understanding of the study and any potential dangers.
-Ethical Considerations: Freedom from Harm: In one paragraph,
1. Explain how the literature you reviewed and your plan for implementation leads you to believe what you are doing is an appropriate intervention and not exposing your participants to risk.
-Ethical Considerations: Anonymity and Confidentiality: In one paragraph,
1. Explain your planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.
Heading 4: Data Collection and Intervention Plan (review from Week 4 assignment) ( I HAVE ATTACHED MY WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT IN THE DROP FILES!!!)
-Data Collected: In one two paragraph,
1. Justify one qualitative (experience-based) or quantitative (number-based) instrument that would be used in your proposed study to collect data on the effectiveness of your intervention in answering your research question.
2. Provide support from the research, literature, and textbook to explain why this would be an effective method for data collection.
– Data Collection Procedures: In one paragraph,
1. Describe your procedures for collecting data in your proposed action research study. This is where you explain how you are using your intervention to collect data.
-Data Collection Considerations: In one to two pages discuss credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability:
1. Discuss how you will establish trustworthiness of your action research study, using Lincoln and Guba’s Quality Criteria for TrustworthinessLinks to an external site. https://bit.ly/3qbL85u
-Intervention Plan: provide your proposed timeline,
1. Describe your data collection procedures and provide a narrative description of your proposal (elevator speech). Be sure to also address how your data collection will reflect trustworthiness and the ethical considerations related to anonymity and confidentiality.
Heading 5: Author’s Reflection (review Week 1 Discussion and Week 5 Assignment) ( I HAVE ATTACHED MY WEEK 1 DISCUSSION AND WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT IN THE DROP FILES!!!)
1. Hypothesize what you think will be the outcome of the proposed research study.
2. Share your thoughts of what about your research question will change or improve as a result of your study, so that you connect your deep understanding of the issue (literature review) to your research question.
-Critique your own understanding of action research as a result of constructing your action research proposal.
1. How has your understanding of action research changed since the discussion in week 1?
-Discuss how action research can strengthen your practices in your current or future role as an early childhood professional.
-Forecast how you could use action research in being a change agent and leader in early childhood education.
References: (Include in Week 6 Summative/Final Paper)
On reference page include a minimum of six scholarly or credible sources, (include all sources referenced in the Week 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 assignments), are required. (ALL REFERENCES ARE ON EACH ASSIGNMENT THAT IS ATTACHED IN THE DROP FILES!!!)
Appendix A: Instrument (Include in Week 6 Summative/Final Paper)
Instrument:
Design one instrument or identify an existing instrument, either quantitative or qualitative, that you could use to collect data to answer your research question and to determine the effectiveness of your intervention.
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