write an action research in 12 pages

In choosing your focus right now for your action research project, you will need to keep the following criteria in mind:
 Choose a topic of study that can lead to an action research plan (keep our class discussions in mind)
 Choose a topic that is of significance and interesting to you
 Choose a topic that will help you to become a better teacher
 Choose a topic that you can realistically pursue in your current setting.

We will discuss the proposed projects in class. You will have the opportunity to make changes and adaptations, if necessary. Please include the following points in your project description.

1. Describe a topic that you have chosen for your action research project. Describe any connections there are to your school’s improvement plan (if applicable). Describe how this fits with either practical action research or critical action research.
2. Describe the process you went through to construct this question (examining goals and beliefs, mentally reviewing educational theory and research, considering your school improvement plan, observing, etc.) and state assumptions you are making about schooling, learning or teaching. Explain your reasons for choosing this particular research focus (what implicit or explicit criteria are you using?). Why is this research focus important to you as an individual? (This question can be seen as an extension of question number 2, first describing what your thought processes have been and then explaining your reasons for being tied to this particular project.)
3. Formulate your topic as a researchable question.
Your project plan will include the following elements:
 Area of focus statement*

 Research questions*

 Description of type of research you plan to undertake; how does this fit with either practical action research or critical action research? *

 Intervention you plan to make

 Description of participants and setting

 Timeline

 List of ethical issues you have considered and how you plan to handle these issues within your project research

 Negotiations that need to be undertaken

 Data collection ideas (observations, audio taping, interviews, questionnaires, journals, etc.)

 Description of how data gathering approaches will help to address your questions, solve problems and accomplish your goal. This is an important section and thoughtful analysis should apply here.

 Identification of an audience
o To whom will you present information about the project once it is complete?
o How will this information be presented?

• Items that have been completed previously, but are simply repeated here. They can be changed if your question(s) have evolved, or can be updated if you did not have them fully fleshed out for the Project Proposal.
you will present parts A, B, C, D and E of your final paper

(4) Final Paper, parts A, B, C, D and E
Using your research question as a focal point, you will conduct a literature review of current literature (sources mostly within the last five years), as well as historical literature that pertains to your topic (older sources that are historically relevant). Within this literature review, you should include sources from general education that are relevant to your research topic. In conducting this lit review, you will need to find strong research articles that are closely related to your research topic (should have at least 5-10 references) In your search of the literature, you are looking for three things:
1. What is already known about this topic?
2. What has been researched recently, adding to the body of knowledge about this topic?
3. What important questions are still waiting to be asked?

In searching out these answers, you may find that this is a good time to modify or adapt your research question.

In addition to finding articles that define your chosen topic, you will also need to find references that support the type of research you have chosen to pursue. If you are examining a question that leads you to interview your students in a fifth grade classroom, you may want to consider using I. E. Seidman’s book, Interviewing as qualitative research: a guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences, published in 1998.

Your final paper will consist of the following four parts:
A. Introduction and personal lens: this is where you will introduce your topic as well as your passion for the topic. You will tell why you want to research this area and how you have come to the point where you are researching this particular topic. You can include these two areas in one section, or you can separate them out to two sections. (2-3 pages)
B. Literature review: In the literature review you summarize the current research related to your topic. Provide an analysis of the research from your own perspective and how the findings impact what you intend to study. Explain the relevance of the findings. Feel free to critique the article and provide alternate interpretations of the study’s methodology and/or findings. Review 5-10 juried articles from contemporary educational journals (4-6 pages)
C. Methodology section: this is where you will describe how you intend to carry out your research. Description of potential participants and setting is a must. You will need at least 1 methodology research references in this section. (1-2 pages)

D. Findings: Here you discuss your data analysis. This is more than a simple description of the numbers but an analysis of how your data points relate to each other. Explain any anomalies that confirm or refute your expectations. The main goal of this section is to provide answers and insights as to how your study addressed your research questions. Use graphs, charts, diagrams and other graphic illustrations of your data to substantiate your interpretation of the data.

E. References: this is where you list all references you used in writing this paper, using APA format