Post: a timeline of your goals for the quarter on Google Docs; invite us to collaborate.
October 10th: Research
proposals and their construction
A discussion of the multiple goals served by research proposals and the
structures that help accomplish those goals
Meet with the new 2nd year students
Readings for next week:
* Mertens Chapter 1 "An introduction to
research" (pp. 1-42)
* Mertens Chapter 3 "Literature Review and Research Problems"
* Boote & Beile
"Scholars
Before Researchers: On the Centrality of the Dissertation Literature Review in
Research Preparation"
Post an outline of your literature review on Google Docs; invite us to
collaborate.
October 17th: Literature
Reviews
Analysis of the multiple functions of literature reviews
Reading for next week::
* Mertens chapter 4 "Experimental Design"
Post a description of an experiment that might shed light on some issue
related to your dissertation research.
Start scanning through the proposals
(online) from Cohorts 1, 2 &
3, and select a good model for your proposal.
October 31st: Experimental Design
Discussion of experimental and quasi-experimental designs
7pm-8pm: T&L/EL Beginning of the Year Reception / Joint Snack @ 304
PCH
Readings for next week:
Articles from the
January/February 2003
Education Researcher:
* Anthony E. Kelly:
Theme
Issue: The Role of Design in Educational Research
* The Design-Based Research Collective:
Design-Based
Research: An Emerging Paradigm for Educational Inquiry
* Paul Cobb, Jere Confrey, Andrea diSessa, Richard Lehrer, and Leona Schauble:
Design
Experiments in Educational Research
Also read for next time:
* Siegler & Opfer
"The development
of numerical estimation: Evidence for multiple representations of numerical
quantity"
* Opfer's
tutorial on
analyzing the number-line estimation task
Post on Google Docs: a proposed design
experiment you might do; bring to class the design of the Siegler & Opfer
experiment
November 7th: Design Experiments
Presentations by Fourth Year Students
Readings for next week:
* Mertens chapter 10 "Mixed-Methods and mixed-model designs"
* Read the methods chapters of two of the proposals of cohorts 1, 2 & 3,
including Cheryl Forbes' and another of your choice
* Post in Google Docs an initial version of your research question(s)
Readings for next week:
* Mertens chapter 11 "Sampling" and Mertens chapter 12 "Data Collection"
*
How
to Use Excel for Data Entry
Post on Google Spreadsheets: an Excel
spreadsheet you might use for your data collection or entry, that includes
data validation and dual entry data entry checking (described in the online
reading)
November 21st: Sampling
& data collection
Preparing data entry spreadsheets in
Excel and SPSS
Readings for next week:
* the IRB
web site
* Review two cohort 1, 2 or 3 IRB
forms
* Share the current state of your proposal by Nov 26th and provide feedback to
all the others by Nov 28th.
Post on Google Docs a detailed outline/draft of
parts of your proposal by Monday and provide feedback on the postings of
others by Wednesday
November 28th: Research Ethics and the IRB process
IRB & human subjects approval
process
For next week:
Prepare a presentation of the current state of your dissertation
proposal
Post on Google Docs more parts of your proposal
and provide feedback to others on their proposal parts
December
5th: Final Project Presentations
Course evaluations
Presentation by each seminar member of the
current state of their proposal
December 12th: Final Project Paper due
(11:59pm PST)
no class meeting
Description:
In addition, you will need access to the APA Style manual: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, fifth edition (2002). American Psychological Association: Washington, DC.
Recommended references:
Final products:
Detailed outline of your dissertation proposal
Draft of the introduction and literature review sections of your proposal.
Draft of your research question(s)
Foci:
Each week a seminar member can have some "focus time" to bring before the
seminar something of their choice.
Weekly assignments: