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Rhode Island College • Feinstein School of Education & Human Development •
Dept. of Educational Studies
FNED 562
Inquiry into Classroom Practice
Grounding Yourself as Both Participant and Observer
Due Today --Memo #4:
What are some research questions you are contemplating?
Group Activity: Oh, the Possibilities!
Please click through to this Google Doc,
which provides instructions and a place to offer feedback to a partner about extending research questions into a full project.
Afterward, please fill out this Research Question Registration Google Doc, which lists which research question(s) you've decided to select,
following feedback from Dr. Carolyn and your partner.
"Questioning Your Research Plans"
from Hubbard & Power, The Art of Classroom Inquiry
Please click through to this Google Doc. Make a copy. Fill it in. Post it on your personal class blog/ site.
Be ready to share during our next class.
Choose a blog post from Rebecca West.
Write 2 sentences about the blog post: Why does this research speak to you? Where will it fit in your upcoming research proposal?
Data Triangulation in Qualitative Research
1) Survey any and all of the following texts with the goal of learning what data triangulation is. [Note: There is no associated assignment with this surveying.]
Familiarize yourself with this way of Defining Triangulation in Qualitative Research
Brief overview of data triangulation in education decision-making
2. Locate one piece of data from your educational setting. Then explain in a 4-7 sentence paragraph what you would need to do to validate the most likely interpretation you have right now of that data item through triangulation.
Post the data (in whatever form seems most appropriate) as well as your interpretation on your personal class blog.
What's due for our next session?
Memo #5:
Contextualizing Yourself
Take observational notes in your teacher researcher journal for 10 minutes average a day.
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