Week 3 assignment
Action Research Proposal: Proposed Study and Research Draft
[WLOs: 1, 2] [CLO: 5]
Assignment Overview and Context
Last week you evaluated scholarly, peer-reviewed research to inform your own action research proposal. As we discussed last week, knowing what has been successful or unsuccessful in addressing the same or similar issues in early childhood education should inform how you approach your area of focus in designing your intervention and instruments.
Remember to save all copies of your work throughout the course as you will use each assignment as part of the Final Action Research Proposal. For many of the discussions and assignments, you are building on your work each week, so it is appropriate to use content from your discussions in your weekly assignments, generally expanding and extending concepts and sections as you progress from week to week. You will have the opportunity to make revisions to each section of your proposal based on instructor and peer feedback prior to submitting your final version in Week 6. Be sure to revisit the feedback you have received from your instructor and classmates each week to continuously refine your proposal throughout the course.
For more information, watch the ECE660 Week 3 video..
Video transcript:
This week you will submit your study proposal. The proposal should include the intervention plan and the ethical considerations. More specifically, you will discuss informed consent and institutional review board—IRB—approval, freedom from harm, anonymity, and confidentiality. You’re going to describe in chronological order how you will implement your intervention and provide a hypothetical yet practical time frame for these steps. You may include a chart that organizes how you will implement your intervention from week to week. This will be a timeline including dates and tasks. Your chart should include dates, tasks, people, locations, etcetera. When considering informed consent and institutional review board, or again, as we refer to IRB approval, discuss how you would approach informed consent if you were to implement your action research study. Explain how you would ensure that participants enter the research of their own free will and with the understanding of the study and any potential dangers. When discussing freedom from harm, explain how the literature you reviewed, and you plan for implementation leads you to believe what you are doing is an appropriate intervention and not exposing your participants to risk. Lastly, explain your planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.
Prepare
To prepare for this assignment, review the following resources as needed:
• Chapters 1 and 2, and Appendix A from the course text, Action Research: A Guide for The Teacher Researcher
Write: Content Expectations
Complete the following sections for your Action Research Proposal: Study and Research Draft:
• Intervention Plan: In one to two pages,
o Describe in chronological order how you will implement your intervention and provide a hypothetical yet practical timeframe for these steps.
o You may include a chart that organizes how you would implement your intervention from week to week.
This will be a timeline including dates and tasks.
Your chart could include dates, tasks, people, locations, etc.
o Ethical Considerations: Informed Consent and Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval: In one to two paragraphs,
Discuss how you would approach informed consent and IRB approval if you were to implement your action research study.
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.
Review the UAGC Institutional Review Board. page for information as needed.
o Ethical Considerations: Freedom from Harm: In one to two paragraphs,
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.
o Ethical Considerations: Anonymity and Confidentiality: In one paragraph,
Explain your planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.
Next Steps
• Must follow the Grading Rubric below to ensure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion.
The Action Research Proposal: Proposed Study and Research Draft paper
• Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word. resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
o Student’s name
o Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Due date
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
o For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least four scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible sources in addition to the course text.
o The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
o To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
Rubric
1. Clearly and comprehensively describes in chronological order how the intervention will be implemented, including a hypothetical yet practical timeframe.
2. Comprehensively discusses how one would approach informed consent and IRB approval, if the action research plan were to be implemented.
3. Comprehensively explains how one will ensure that participants enter the research of their free will and with an understanding of the study and any potential dangers.
4. Comprehensively explains how the literature review and implementation plan lead one to believe the intervention is appropriate and will not expose participants to risk.
5. Comprehensively explains the planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.
6. Displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to understand.
7. Accurately uses APA formatting consistently throughout the paper, title page, and reference page.
8. Uses more than the required number of scholarly sources, providing compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the reference page are used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.