Effect of Technology in Enthusiasm for Learning Science.

As shared in Chapter 9 of Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher, “To evaluate a research study competently, you must have knowledge of each component of the research process(p. 215). Considering all that you have learned and practiced up to this point, you will apply criteria for evaluating action research to the sample action research report provided above. In a Word document, discuss and justify the following:

Part One:

Area of focus
Identify the area of focus. Does it involve teaching and learning?
Research questions
Identify the research question(s). Does the researcher state questions that were answerable given the researcher’s expertise, time, and resources?
Locus of control
Identify the locus of control. Was the area of focus within the researcher’s locus of control?
Data collection
Briefly describe the data collection techniques. Did the researcher use appropriate data collection techniques (qualitative and/or quantitative) to answer the study’s research questions?
Ethics
Did the researcher face any ethical challenges? If so, how were they resolved?
Reflective stance
In what ways has the action research effort contributed to the researcher’s reflective stance on the ways teaching and learning are viewed?
Action
Did the outcomes of the study lead to action?
Action-data connection
How is the proposed action connected to the study’s data analysis and interpretation?
Part Two: Self-Reflection (one to two paragraphs, first-person verbiage allowable)
Describe any take-aways from this study and the process of evaluating it. What insight did this researcher give you indirectly regarding the process of action research? What will you take away from this process to apply to your final project?

Follow APA guidelines to construct a three- to five-page evaluative report, not including title and reference pages. You must include a minimum of two resources other than the article itself to support your information and reasoning.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument