Social Cognitive Theory and Effective Teachers – Collecting data
Submit a 3-4 page Microsoft Word document. For this milestone, you will explain who the participants are in your study and where the research is conducted. You will also you will describe data collected and what you observed in the instructional videos. The participants, setting, and data will be obtained from the same video you observed.
Since your data is based on videos of classroom observations, your participants are students (include grade level and subject and how many students) and the teacher (include gender and other descriptors). The setting will be the classroom and school where the study is conducted.
As you are writing the Participants/Settings section, ask yourself:
● Who are the participants in the videos I observed? What is the setting? Why is it important in a research study to discuss participants and
setting?
● How can I best use the qualitative research examples as models for my writing?
As you are writing the Data Collection section, ask yourself:
● What do I observe?
● What is the teacher doing?
● What are the students doing?
● What do I notice regarding the classroom environment?
● What else do I notice?
● What do I observe happening in the classroom that can help answer my research question?
● How do my observations connect to my topic and research question?
