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Step 3 - Developing a strategy for your study - Page 1Once you have a question and you've read the relevant research related to your topic, you will need to decide how you want to approach the study. For example: If you want to know if increasing parent contact increases homework completion, then you will need to think through each part of your question. What do you mean by parent contact? Phone calls home, emails, interactions with them as they come to drop off or pick up their child, parent/teacher conferences? Whatever you decide becomes your intervention or strategy. It is the "what" or "how" of your study. Once a topic is identified and a research question developed, you must begin the task of determining what you are going to DO in your classroom to affect a change. What intervention are you going to use? And, what are the best ways to observe the impact you hope to make? Think about… Ask yourself the following question as you begin to develop a comprehensive plan for implementing your study: Developing a strategy/intervention· What do you want to do? How will you measure the data? What baseline and post-intervention data will you collect? How often will you collect data? How will you know that it worked/didn't work? Have you spoken with your principal/department chair/team leader about this project? Before you Implement· Do you have all the necessary permissions (if needed—this depends on the study (Please speak with your principal or team leader for guidance)? · How will you remember to do the intervention? · Are there visual cues you can post? How can you monitor consistency? Have you developed all of the instruments necessary to gather the data? Are you storing your data in a safe place? Online Support Post your strategy to the Discussion Board area or email it to your instructor for clarification and guidance about your specific study—especially in the strategy and data collection section.
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