For this eighth assignment for Ed 603, you are going to write the Subjects and Instruments sections of your research proposal.
You should create a word processing document for the assignment. As you did
for previous assignments, at the top of the page, on the first line record the
following: Ed 603, Lesson 8 Assignment. On the second line record your name and
student number at MSUM (if you have one). On the third line record the date you
completed the assignment.
In the assignment you should include the following items or components of
your research plan, in the order given:
You should describe the procedure you used to
select the study participants. Also describe how they will be selected for each
subgroup.
An example for this section, taken from your
textbook (Gay & Airasian, 2000, page 143) is as follows:
Subjects:
Participants in this study will be selected from
the population of 10th-grade biology students at an upper-middle-class all-girl
Catholic high school in Miami, Florida. The student population is
multicultural, reflecting the diverse ethnic groups in Dade County. The student
body is composed of approximately 90% Hispanic students from a variety of Latin
American backgrounds, the major one being Cuban, 9% Caucasian non-Hispanic
students, and 1% African-American students. The population is anticipated to
contain approximatelly 200 biology students.
Prior to the beginning of the school year, before
students have been scheduled, 60 students will be randomly selected (using a
table of random numbers) and randomly assigned to 2 classes of 30 each, 30 is
the normal class size. One of the classes will be randomly chosen to receive IMM
instruction and other will not.
In this section you will want to describe the
instruments you will be using in your study to measure the variables you have
defined and described in the hypothesis section of your paper. Your text
authors suggest that you should include the following in this section of your
paper:
An example for this section, taken from your
textbook (Gay & Airasian, 2000, page 560) is as follows:
Instrument:
The biology test of the National Proficiency Survey
Series (NPSS) was used as the measuring instrument. The test was designed to
measure individual student performance in biology at the high school level but
the publishers also recommended it as an evaluation of instructional programs.
Content validity is good; items were selected from a large item bank provided
by classroom teachers and curriculum experts. High school instructional
materials and a national curriculum survey were extensively reviewed before
objectives were written. The test objectives and those of the biology classes
in the study were highly correlated. Although the standard error of measurement
is not given for the biology test, the range of KR-20s for the entire battery
is from .82 to .91 with a median of .86. This is satisfactory since the purpose
of the test was to evaluate instructional programs not to make decisions
concerning individuals. Catholic school students were included in the battery
norming procedures which were carried out in April and May of 1988 using 22,616
students in grades 9-12 from 45 high schools in 20 states.
Qualitative Research Plan (optional): If you are
doing a qualitative research plan for your
major project for Ed 603, do the above assignment, but in addition read pages 197-255
in the Gay & Airasian (7th Edition) text – “Step 4 Data
Collection.”
After you have completed the assignment (and saved it on your computer) send
e-mail to your instructor indicating that you are sending the lesson 8
assignment in and then attach the file for the assignment to your email
message. The e-mail address for the instructor, John Wasson, is wassonj@teleport.com