Directions for Completing the Response Part One Brainstorm and share a list of p

Directions for Completing the Response
Part One
Brainstorm and share a list of potential data sources that will provide you with insight into your research question(s). Consider and make note of all possible ideas. After you’ve made your list, think about the data collection strategies that are the most and least practical. What makes a strategy practical? What makes one impractical? Are there strategies you labeled as impractical that might provide valuable understandings into your questions? Is there a way to adapt these strategies so that they are a more reasonable way of collecting data? Part Two
After you brainstorm a list of potential data sources, you are ready to narrow in on the strategies you might utilize. To help you do this you will construct a data collection chart. Title your chart using your primary research question. Create two columns. Label the first one “Information That Would Help Me Answer My Question” and label the second column “Data Collection strategies That Would Generate This Information.” Include at least 4-5 pieces of information that will help you answer the question. Sample Chart – from The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research
Research Question – In what ways do science talks enhance student understandings of science concepts?
Information That Would Help Me Answer My Question Data Collection strategies That Would Generate This Information
Knowing how students’ conceptual knowledge develops during our astronomy unit. Collect the students’ science journals. Knowing what students are saying during Science Talks. Audiotape Science Talks, taking field notes. My thinking about what happened during Science Talks after they occur. Teacher journal.
Students’ opinions about Science Talks. Surveys.
Literature on Science Talks. I’m already familiar with Karen Gallas’ book, Talking Their Way Into Science. Searching for other books or articles connected to Science Talks, building conceptual knowledge in science, teaching elementary science, and so on. Expectations
Summarize the thought process you used to complete the chart. Be sure to include a copy of the brainstorming and thinking you did in the discussion thread along with your chart.