Identifying Problem/Framing Research Question

Collecting Data

Analyzing Data

Developing Plan
 

Action Step Ideas

Implementing Your Ideas in the Classroom

• Testing Your Hypotheses (involves systematic implementation of your ideas, basically a continuation of your study)
• Form a test group of subjects
• Statement of what factors, variables or ideas you are testing
• Implement test
• Record results
• Reflect 
• Make Interpretations
• Record Any New Findings
• Alter Plan if Necessary
• Curriculum Development
• List ways of implementing conclusions into the curriculum
• Connect conclusions to education purposes, goals, and objectives
• Begin to implement into lesson plans
• Track progress
• Reflect on implementation
• Share results with peers
• Have others try your ideas and give feedback

• Target an audience
• Decide what you want to say (What parts of your data you want to share).
• Organize a structure for your paper
• Literature Review

Some papers may consist of a review of prior research that has been done on your topic.
• Research Question and Hypothesis
• Data Collection Methods and Procedures
• Your Subjects
• Data Analysis Methods and Procedures
• Validation or Triangulation Methods
• Your Conclusions
• A Discussion or Implications of Your Findings
• Reflections
• You may want to include narratives from your subjects (short quotes or examples of the data you collected

• Target an Audience
• Find funding support
• Request from funder their grant proposal format and content requirements 
• Write a grant proposal
• Introduction and Discussion (provide a rationale for conducting the study)
• Literature Review (what others have found on your topic and what remains to be discovered)
• Methods Section (planned data collection and analysis techniques)
• Action Plan (support and resources on completing the project)
• Results (What you will do with the results)
• Proposed Budget
• Obtain permission from parents if their students are to be used as subjects.