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 * Online Class 2 23 13 **

I hope you are all working hard on your various projects. I feel our last face to face class helped us all feel we are on the right track. There will be no new online class posted next week (3/2/13), so work on this class work and homework and continue with your projects.

1. Check in with your classmates in the usual spot.
 * We will meet face to face on 3/9/13 **

2. Respond to reading assignment from last week (99PP. 179-188) in Mertler text – see below to post your response.

1. Due 3/9 – Data Analysis report and presentation. Please read the direction and criteria sheet very carefully so you complete the project completely and accurately.
 * Homework**

2. Due 3/16 – Curriculum Perspectives Project

3. **Response to Mertler Text** Please review your reading of these pages then post your responses to the questions below. Make sure to add your name to each post and change font and/or color too. P. 180 details 5 guidelines to help make your action research report clearer and more effective for your readers. Say something in relation to your plans for YOUR OWN RESEREACH report detailing your data analysis chapter for at least 3 of the 5 guidelines and one of them MUST be #4. Although these guidelines will be most helpful in late March/April as you write up chapter three, they are important to think about now as you are analyzing your data for inclusion into chapter 3.

1. Make every effort to be impartial in your write up. It is very difficult to be impartial about my action research data because of my feelings about art and the impact that it has had on my life. However, I feel that using the data from my pre- and post- surveys will help me to be impartial because the students filled them out themselves and weren’t swayed towards one answer or another. Therefore, I can be impartial to the answers that were given to me on those surveys. I will have to remind myself that I am stating what I observed and the results.~Caryn

2. Include references to yourself where they are warranted. In my action research paper I included how i want parents to be involved in my class nd how my parents were involved in my education~Tiaa Using I, my, and me will be a more simple task to accomplish than trying to be impartial throughout my analysis piece. I feel this way because I will be telling my story, my path taken through the action research, and what I’ve learned from this experience.~Caryn

3. Take your readers along on all aspects of your study. In my action research paper I think that the readers will like reading my paper because through out the paper I include infromation about how I feel and how I experience different thoughts from different parents on how they believe that parental involvement should be.~Tiaa I want to use my Data Analysis outline as headings for my paper. I feel this will guide the reader though the 3rd part and also give the reader clues about what the next sections will be about. I will correlate my outline with what Mertler suggests and those are: Introduction, review of related literature, description of innovation, data collection and considerations, data analysis and interpretation, conclusions, and reflection and action plan to make sure that I cover what needs to be covered and extra information I may want to include.~Caryn

MUST COMMENT ON THIS GUIDELINE 4. Include representative samples when they enhance your presentation. When doing my action paper I will include graphs, and pictures of student samples~Tiaa I know that by including sample pictures and writing pieces it will bring my analysis to life for my reader. I am also going to include some of the charts from my pretest and posttest to display how my students felt about art before the action research and how they felt after the completion of their projects.~Caryn

5. Include interesting, but nonessential information in appendices, if appropriate.