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Examining your program’s impact by doing your own research

Examining your program’s impact by doing your own research. Dr. Patricia Brady, Research Coordinator Jason Swanson, Graduate Research Assistant Illinois New Teacher Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Introductions. Overview. Why do research?

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Examining your program’s impact by doing your own research

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  1. Examining your program’simpact by doing your own research Dr. Patricia Brady, Research Coordinator Jason Swanson, Graduate Research Assistant Illinois New Teacher Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Introductions

  3. Overview • Why do research? • Interactive activity: Case study • Types of research and research strategies • Interactive activity: Planning your research

  4. Basic steps of an evaluation project

  5. Why do research? • Who is our audience? • How do we know what we are doing is successful? • What is working? What is not working? • What result do you want the findings to have?

  6. Case study: Oakville Take 5 minutes to read, and another 10 minutes to discuss at your table: • What are the main issues regarding the induction program in Oakville? • Which one issue would you focus on to study? Why?

  7. Impacts to research • Look over the document on page 4 of your packet. • Which impact should Oakville focus on?

  8. The research question • How could you convert Oakville’s issue into an answerable question?

  9. Types of Research • Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods • Surveys • Interviews • Classroom observations • Documents

  10. Planning Oakville’s research • Which research strategies are best fits for your research question? • Which strategies are most feasible? • Look at the Appendices in your packet (pp. 16-22), and start brainstorming specific ideas for your research project.

  11. Time to vote In the remaining time, would you rather: • Go through these steps to start planning research in your own program OR • Learn more about the research process and continue working through the packet

  12. Your own research • Find a new partner • Share some context about your program and your role • Discuss the issues in your program • Plan what impacts you will investigate • Formulate a research question and research strategies

  13. Research considerations • Demographic data • Pre/post data (multiple points in time) • Control groups • Confidentiality • Keeping data organized

  14. Working with data • Record keeping • Summarizing / finding themes / coding • Analyzing / interpreting • Triangulation • Reporting and presenting

  15. Caveats • Causality • Generalizability

  16. Creating an action plan • Action steps • Completion date • Person responsible • Other information

  17. Contact information Patricia Brady, Research Coordinator 217.244.7376 pbrady@illinois.edu Jason Swanson, Research Assistant 217.244.7389 jaswansn@illinois.edu

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