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Partnerships Meet Share Comments on Partner's Work Each Week |
Individual Weekly Work Compose & Revise Final Document |
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| Week One | Introduction to students and professor.Describe your project topic, anticipated and
ideal. What is a research proposal? What are the three programatic options? Discuss and formulate helping relationships. Research component and classwork component of graduate program. Role of each. Bridging role of this class. |
Formulate Partnerships Schedule, plan and hold first meeting. Your face to face meetings and SHARING OF WRITING provide support for your individual work. They are intended to eliminate the possibility of individuals freezing and being left behind in process of developing a research proposal. |
Submit Your Proposal from Research Methods or Evaluation Revise and Submit your Topic/Problem:Describe and define. What area of inquiry is your masters project going to address? Choose Option |
| Week Two | Parts of a
research proposal Iterative process of defining a problem and purpose.Conceptual maps, Boolean logic and electronic indexing sysyems. Components of a brief purpose statement. Different types of academic proposals Relation of academic proposal to other proposals. |
Create and Share a conceptual map of your topic/problem/ purpose. | Revised Problem: What problem in this area of inquiry (the topic) are you
most interested in? Anticipate Form of Outcome |
| Week Three | Review proprietory data bases. | Refine and revise your conceptual maps. | RevisedPurpose: What part of the problem will your study address and how will
the results be presented? Review Anticipated Form of Outcome |
| Week Four | Finding and using references and other forms of information. Literature review and history as part of all studies and as constituting complete studies. Richness and precision in research methods. Qualitative and quantitative studies. |
Embellish conceptual maps with literature review categories and search strategies. | RevisedLiterature Review: Formulate your categories and search strategies. Revise your first approximation and revise it again. |
| Week Five | Present findings of literature search adventure. Philosophical and practical implications of choosing research methods and procedures. Role of researcher as objective observer, phenomenological observer, participant and change agent. |
Sharecharts or databases to facilitate your managing references used in your study. | RevisedLiterature Review: Revise, refine and write your plan for literature
review. Iterative plan/try, plan/try. Revised Method: What methods and procedures will your study use? Tell how your study will be done and why. Cite references you plan to use for your methodology section Meet with Instructor for review of work to date. |
| Week Six | Planning the work and working the plan, making the theoretical concrete and possible
within scope, scale and time alloted. Parallel activities, Richness and precision revisited, how can the precise be more rich and the rich more precise? Where does your planned work lie on this r/p scale and what can you do to optimize it? Are you aware of your philosophical assumptions and embedded values. Are your statistics really value-free? |
Share flow charts of planned process of research. | Method: Do a mini-trial of your methods and procedures Limitations Definitions Time lines |
| Week Seven | Present proposal to faculty in class. Hand in one page summary andfull proposal draft. Faculty review and evaluations of student proposals |
Embellish flowcharts with time lines and distinguish parallel activities. | Revisions and elaborations |
| Week Eight | Present what you learned in mini-method experience. | Share limitations and criticize their completeness | Revisions and elaborations |
| Week Nine | Lecture and discussion to be based on needs of this particular class. | Share definitions and test their clarity | Complete all parts of the proposal. |
| Week Ten | Lecture and discussion to be based on needs of this particular class. | Share references and bibliographies | Proposal Due |
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