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    The document outlines the schedule and requirements for students to complete their research report between June and August 2019. It provides deadlines and instructions for drafting 5 chapters: 1) background to the problem, 2) literature review, 3) methodology, 4) results, and 5) conclusions and recommendations. Students must work with their supervisor, meet all deadlines, and follow APA formatting and referencing guidelines. The final report is due August 12-15 and must be spiral bound for submission.

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    MICO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

    Faculty of Education – Department of Professional Studies


    STUDENT GUIDE: Schedule of activities for Preparation of Research Report (The Study)
    –June to August 2019
    NOTE WELL: This report must be written in the PAST TENSE!
    Work closely with the guidelines and rubric you received in April

    Chapter 1- Background to the Problem – (4-6 continuous pages)


    Describe the Setting Adequately
    • Appropriately introduce the concern/need/issue and its impact on the teaching and
    learning interactions
    • Describe the practicum setting – physical, psycho-social, curricular focus etc.
    • Explain your position at the facility
    • Clearly outline the concern/issue and explain what was happening that fueled your
    suspicions.
    • Briefly provide preliminary data to support your suspicions and establish significance
    (How extensive was the problem? Who was affected? Who would benefit from intervention)
    • Provide clear outline of your intentions (purpose)
    • Clearly formulate 2 to 3 objectives/research questions – Think about what you found
    out from your needs assessment as well as what you wanted to accomplish from your
    intervention and phrase these as GENERAL questions.
    • Support/justify your claims and decisions with relevant literature
    • Edit your work – make good use of dictionaries, thesauruses & APA manual 6th edition
    LOOKING AHEAD:
    Work on literature review for chapter 2– build on literature incorporated in your
    Action Learning activities up this point.

    DEADLINE #1: June 10 to 14, 2019


    • Submit DRAFT of Chapter 1 to Research supervisor for feedback
    • Schedule consultation session with your supervisor
    • Use feedback to guide chapter revision

    Prepared by Valri Morgan


    Department of Professional Studies
    January 2012 (updated, January 2018)
    Chapter 2 – Literature Review (5-8 continuous pages)
    Work closely with Research Report Guidelines
    • Edit/update Chapter 1 based on feedback from supervisor
    • Introduce the chapter by
    o Reminding readers of what the research was about
    o Explain how the chapter is organized
    • Refine Literature review
    o Consult current sources (at least 75% of references must be no more than six years old,
    that is 2013 onward)
    o Consult credible sources – evaluate your sources (ABSOLUTELY NO Wikipedia,
    Dictionary.com and such allowed)
    o Provide clarity in relation to the problem and intervention strategies
    o Make the link between the literature and the research questions/objectives
    o Consult current and credible sources
    o Give credit to sources
    o Use APA referencing format consistently
    o Use clear, precise and coherent language
    • Close the chapter with a summary that
    o gives an overall picture of what the chapter was about
    o identifies the main arguments
    o presents your own voice
    • Let the literature and Chapter 1 guide your preparation of Chapter 3
    • Edit your work – make good use of dictionaries, thesauruses & APA manual 6th edition

    DEADLINE #2: June 24 to 28, 2019


    • Submit draft of Chapter 2 to Research supervisor
    • Schedule consultation session with supervisor
    • Use feedback to guide your chapter revision

    Chapter 3 – Methodology (4-7 continuous pages)


    • Edit/update Chapter 2 based on feedback from supervisor
    • Work closely with Research Report Guidelines

    Prepared by Valri Morgan


    Department of Professional Studies
    January 2012 (updated, January 2018)
    • Introduce your chapter by reminding readers of what the research was about and describing
    how you have organized the chapter
    • Indicate and justify your research design (ACTION RESEARCH)
    • Explain /describe the needs assessment process – purpose, methodology, timeline etc.
    • Clearly outline:
    o Ethical considerations – How issues were addressed
    o Participants/data sources - people and documents if used (Describe them, justify their
    inclusion and how they were selected)
    o Instruments – (Describe and justify your choice; align with your research questions)
    • Explain and justify the analysis strategies/procedures/tools you used to make sense of the data
    you collected via your needs assessment
    • Provide a chapter summary
    • Edit your work – make good use of dictionaries, thesauruses & APA manual 6th edition

    DEADLINE #3: July 8-12, 2019


    • Submit draft Chapter 3 to Research supervisor

    • Schedule consultation session with supervisor

    • Use feedback to guide chapter revision

    Chapter 4 – Results (5-8 continuous pages)


    • Edit/update Chapter 3 based on feedback from supervisor
    • Work closely with Research Report Guidelines
    • Provide an introductory paragraph that links your research interest with the needs assessment
    process and findings to be discussed.
    • Remind readers of your data analysis strategies in relation to your instruments and started
    research questions
    • Report the findings specific to each stated research question/objective
    • Represent your data appropriately (statistics, summaries of results, comparisons, extracts etc. as
    appropriate) in relation to the stated objectives/research questions
    • Provide a chapter summary
    • Begin preparing introductory and final pages – Table of contents, abstract, appendices etc.

    • Edit your work – make good use of dictionaries, thesauruses & APA manual 6th edition

    DEADLINE #4: July 22 to 26, 2019


    • Submit draft Chapter 4 to Research supervisor

    • Schedule consultation session with supervisor

    Prepared by Valri Morgan


    Department of Professional Studies
    January 2012 (updated, January 2018)
    • Use feedback to guide chapter revision

    Chapter 5 – Conclusions and Recommendations (5-8 continuous pages)


    Preparation of Chapter 5, preliminary and final pages/sections

    • Edit/update Chapter 4 based on feedback from supervisor


    • Work closely with your rubric and guidelines
    • Introduce your chapter linking findings of needs assessment with your upcoming
    recommendations for intervention
    • Prepare a conclusion bearing the purpose of the study in mind, the results of the needs
    assessment and the implications for these results.
    • Provide a detailed intervention plan that supports your recommendation
    • Justify your proposed intervention plan with findings from the needs assessment and relevant
    literature
    • Give credit to sources

    • Use APA format consistently

    • Edit your work – make good use of dictionaries, thesauruses & APA manual 6th edition

    DEADLINE #5: August 5-9, 2019


    • Submit draft Chapter 5 to Research supervisor

    • Schedule consultation session with supervisor

    August 5 to 15, 2019: Preparation of final draft

    • Work closely with guidelines provided


    • Check your work against the rubric
    • Final editing and organizing of document

    • Check to see that all areas are represented

    • Check for referencing standards and language (report in the past)

    • Get your report spiral bound

    FINAL DEADLINE: August 12 to 15, 2019


    • Submit final document using the relevant channels to the administrative assistant in the
    department from which your programme/area of specialization/option is administered.

    Prepared by Valri Morgan


    Department of Professional Studies
    January 2012 (updated, January 2018)

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