1. ASH EDU 675 W EEK 4 A SSIGNMENT F ORMATIVE E VALUATION I NTERPRETATION NEW C HECK THIS A+ TUTORIAL GUIDELINE AT HTTP :// WWW. ASSIGNMENTCLOUD. COM / EDU -675- NEW / EDU -675- WEEK -4- ASSIGNMENT - FORMATIVE - EVALUATION - INTERPRETATION - NEW F OR MORE CLASSES VISIT HTTP :// WWW. ASSIGNMENTCLOUD. COM F ORMATIVE E VALUATION - I NTERPRETATION I N EDU671, YOU IDENTIFIED THE TYPE OF DATA, THE FREQUENCY OF COLLECTION, TOOLS AND HAVE ALSO EXPLORED TOPICS RELATED TO ETHICAL CONSIDERATION OF THIS INFORMATION. Y OU ARE IN THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING DATA FOR YOUR ACTION RESEARCH IN THE FIELD AT THIS TIME. B E REMINDED THAT YOU ’ RE THE APPROVED A CTION R ESEARCH I NFORMED C ONSENT ALLOWS YOUR IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS ACTION RESEARCH INTERVENTION OR INNOVATION IN A SPECIALIZED SETTING AS FOLLOWS : T HOSE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED IN A CLASSROOM SETTING. T HOSE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED IN A NON - CLASSROOM OR EDUCATIONAL SETTING. T HOSE NOT EMPLOYED BUT IMPLEMENTING THE INTERVENTION OR INNOVATION WITH FAMILY MEMBERS, YOURSELF, OR YOUR OWN CHILDREN. Y OU ARE ALSO IN THE FINAL WEEK OF YOUR ACTION RESEARCH INTERVENTION. T HROUGH THIS PROCESS, YOUR EXPERIENCE REINFORCES ACTION RESEARCH AS BEING CYCLICAL (B UCZYNSKI & H ANSEN, 2014; M ILLS, 2014) AND FOR THE BEST OUTCOME WE MUST ENGAGE IN CRITICAL REFLECTION OF THE DATA (V OLANTE & B ECKETT, 2011). HTTP :// WWW. ASSIGNMENTCLOUD. COM / EDU -675- NEW / EDU -675- WEEK -4- ASSIGNMENT - FORMATIVE - EVALUATION - INTERPRETATION - NEW HTTP :// WWW. ASSIGNMENTCLOUD. COM

2. V ITAL TO THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING DATA IS THE CONTINUAL ALIGNMENT TO YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION ( S ). E QUALLY IMPORTANT IS HOW YOU WILL SYSTEMATICALLY COLLECT MULTIPLE SOURCES OF DATA AND PRESENT THE FINDING TO ARISE AT COMPREHENSIVE CONCLUSIONS AT THE TERMINATION OF YOUR STUDY. T HE QUALITY OF YOUR DATA ANALYSIS IS A STRONG PREDICTOR OF THE EASE WITH WHICH YOU CAN MANAGE THE DATA BUT HOW YOU CAN DEVELOP SOUND FINDINGS AT THE END OF YOUR STUDY. C ONSIDER : H OW WILL YOU TRIANGULATE THIS INFORMATION ? H OW WILL YOU CONTINUE TO BUILD UPON THIS INFORMATION IN ORDER TO MAKE SENSE AND CORRELATE YOUR DATA TO YOUR OUTCOMES ? T HE FOCUS OF THIS ASSIGNMENT IS TO REFLECT ON THE DATA AND TO PREPARE FOR HOW TO ANALYZE IN ORDER TO ANSWER THE RESEARCH QUESTION. W E WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION OF “S O WHAT ?” (M ILLS, 2014, P.132) T HIS IS A CRITICAL STAGE OF YOUR ACTION RESEARCH ! I N THIS ASSIGNMENT, YOU EVALUATE THE MAIN THEMES EMERGING FROM YOUR DATA THUS FAR AND HOW THEY ARE OR ARE NOT SUPPORTING YOUR RESEARCH QUESTIONS. F OR EXAMPLE, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IN THE DATA, YOU MAY HAVE ASSESSED THAT YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN STATED IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT MANNER IN ORDER TO MORE AUTHENTICALLY CAPTURE THE SPECIFIC DATA. O R, PERHAPS THE DATA TELLS YOU THAT ONE OF YOUR QUESTIONS WAS IRRELEVANT OR THAT AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION WITH A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FOCUS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED. C ONSTRUCT YOUR ASSIGNMENT TO MEET THE CONTENT AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION EXPECTATIONS BELOW. C ONTENT E XPECTATIONS T HEMES (2 POINTS ): D ESCRIBE THE THEMES EMERGING FROM THE DATA COLLECTION. P ERSONAL E XPERIENCES (2 POINTS ): A NALYZE HOW THE PRELIMINARY FINDINGS RELATE TO YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES USING SPECIFIC EXAMPLES. I MPLICATIONS. (3 POINTS ): D ESCRIBE THE IMPLICATIONS OF YOUR DATA THAT CAN BE USED TO ANSWER YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION ( S ). W RITTEN C OMMUNICATION E XPECTATIONS P AGE R EQUIREMENT (.5 POINTS ): T HREE - TO - FOUR PAGES, NOT INCLUDING TITLE, REFERENCES, AND APPENDIX PAGES. APA F ORMATTING (.5 POINTS ): U SE APA FORMATTING CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE ASSIGNMENT. S YNTAX AND M ECHANICS (.5 POINTS ): D ISPLAY METICULOUS COMPREHENSION AND ORGANIZATION OF SYNTAX AND MECHANICS, SUCH AS SPELLING AND GRAMMAR. S OURCE R EQUIREMENT (.5 POINTS ): U SE NO LESS THAN TWO SCHOLARLY SOURCES IN ADDITION TO THE B UCZYNSKI AND H ANSEN (2014) AND M ILLS (2009) TEXTBOOKS, PROVIDING COMPELLING EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IDEAS, AND IF APPLICABLE, REFERENCE TO ORIGINAL PROJECT IF ENHANCEMENT OF EXISTING PROJECT OCCURRED. A LL SOURCES ON THE REFERENCE PAGE NEED TO BE USED AND CITED CORRECTLY WITHIN THE BODY OF THE ASSIGNMENT. N EXT S TEPS : R EVIEW AND S UBMIT THE A SSIGNMENT