READ 6406: Introduction

Announcements * Syllabus/Assignment Highlights * Questions and Concerns

In this class, you’ll explore a real literacy “wondering” in your classroom by looking at what is already known about it (peer reviewed research), designing an intervention, and studying the impact on student learning in a systematic way. Reflection will be important throughout the process.

Portfolios in TaskStreamMAEd-READ Education GEPNorth Carolina Department of Public Instruction for licensing purposes. READ 6407: EVIDENCE 3 (Action Research). MAEd-READ Program PortfolioREAD 6418, 6406, 6407, 6421, 6422, and 6430,NC Standards for Graduate Teaching Candidates Standards for Reading Professionals *READ 6406: action research proposal presentation

Required Texts and MaterialsHendricks, C. (2012). Improving schools through action research: A comprehensive guide for educators. (3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River: Merrill. ISBN-10: 0132868644 • ISBN-13: 9780132868648American Psychological Association (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th Ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5 ECU Joyner Library databases You will need a webcam with microphone for videoconferencing.

Tips for Success• Microsoft word or Google Doc?• Submit assignments on time. • Assignments will not be accepted if they are submitted more

than one week late without prior consultation with the instructor.

• If you have questions, email the instructor ASAP.• If you have trouble uploading an assignment to Bb, email it to

me and keep trying. • Download and review all instructor feedback.• Front load your work: the more you work now, the easier it

will be in the spring.• Thoughtful work • Stay on track/steady participation

ECU Writing CenterA free service: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/writing/writingcenter/index.cfm Instructions for online consultation: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/writing/uwc/OWLsynchronous.cfm .

What you can expect from me• Email, phone, google hangout, skype, office, etc.• Office Hours• Email response within 24 hours on weekdays and within 48

hours on weekends.• Include READ 6406 in all email messages and detailed message • Specific feedback on each submitted assignment. View the

feedback and consider it as you move forward.• Module information will be made available to you gradually so

it can be modified to meet your needs as the course progresses.

• Commentaries in google doc – return to them for clarification that I might add.

Module 1 Response Activity and Quiz

• What is action research?• Ethics in action research• Action research mentor texts

Topic Paperhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0lEG5cC7vuRarDH9xVl2HG_RdcGx2dMzfhwZxthpC4/edit?usp=sharing

Lit Review Matrix and Lit Review• Once your focus has been approved, you will conduct a

literature review in order to (a) refine your research question, (b) compile a research base for your project, and (c) to conceptualize an intervention for your action research project.

• A lit review matrix will scaffold this assignment.• The lit review is an ongoing assignment that will continue

to be revised throughout the action research process (you will continue to refine it into the spring term).

• Use the Writing Center!

Research Proposal

• Write your AR proposal. • Practice the presentation with your learning

team virtually (initial planning: research question, intervention, data sources).

• You will revise the proposal and present it to READ faculty.

• Peer Review.• Revise and submit to Bb.

ECU UMC IRB• CITI Modules for Research with Human Subjects (completed within last

3 years)• Once proposal is approved, submit it to ECU IRB for review and

approval. • Complete submission process prior to Thanksgiving break.• If you teach in a district that requires the inclusion of ECU IRB approval

in your district submission, you must submit to the ECU IRB office earlier than the deadline noted here to make the district deadlines (WAKE).

• It is your responsibility to be aware of your district requirements for action research.

• Keep in close communication with your instructor. • You must receive all necessary approvals (including UMC-IRB and

district approvals prior to data collection (January, 2016). Failure to receive the necessary approvals may result in failure of READ 6406/07.

Thinking Ahead …

• Aim for a quasi-experimental pre/post test design, if possible.

• If not, we’ll need to explore other methodological designs based on your context and consultation with the AR and the research textbooks.

YOU CAN DO THIS!We are all in this together!