USA: +1(669)289-8683 
Sign in
PLEASE FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS TO THIS ASSIGNMENT
Course Textbooks:
Mills, G. E. (2018).
Action research: A guide for the teacher researcher
(6th ed.). Pearson.
Sagor, R. (2000).
Guiding school improvement with action researc
h Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com/corp
Remember to save all copies of your work throughout the course as you will use each
assignment as part of the Final Action Research Proposal. Your discussions and
assignments build on one another each week. Plan to use content from your discussions in
your weekly assignments, generally expanding and extending concepts and sections as you
progress from week to week. You will have the opportunity to revise each section of your
proposal based on instructor and peer feedback prior to your final version in the Final
Action Research Proposal.
Assignment Length
This assignment must be about 25 double-spaced pages in length (not including title
and reference pages).
The summative assignment for ECE 660, the Final Action Research Proposal, will consist of
five major sections that you have constructed throughout the course. Based on the
feedback you have received each week from classmates, colleagues, and your instructor,
you are expected to review, revise, and resubmit each section in the final proposal. The
required sections for your Final Action Research Proposal are as follows:
• Heading 1: Introduction
• Heading 2: Literature Review
• Heading 3: The Proposed Study/Research
• Heading 4: Data Collection and Intervention Plan
• Heading 5: Author’s Reflection
• References
• Appendix A: Instrument
When collating your Final Action Research proposal, be sure to use the appropriate
seventh edition APA Style format for each heading.
Write: Content Expectations
Heading 1: Introduction (review and revise from Week 1 assignment)
• Purpose and Significance of the Proposed Study: In one to two paragraphs,
o Describe your current professional role and setting.
o Explain the purpose of your study and the student outcomes you want to
influence.
o Discuss the literature or research that indicates why this is an important area
to address in education.
o Note: If you are not working in early childhood education at this time, you
can use a previous or future role that aligns with your career goals and
interests.
• Explanation of Problem: In two paragraphs,
o Explain the statement of the problem or situation that led to this interest or
why you want to pursue this topic.
o Use scholarly research to support your choice of problem or situation.
• Population: In one paragraph,
o Describe the target population (gender, race, age or grade, quantity of
participants, students or adults).
o Explain why you have chosen this target population for the study, including
details about why this population is appropriate for the study.
• One Research Question:
o Develop one research question that aligns with your statement of problem or
situation and clearly addresses what you hope to answer and influence in
this proposed study.
o The question needs to be answerable and it must appropriately represent the
population or participants you identified.
• This heading should be two pages.
Heading 2: Literature Review (review and revise from Week 2 assignment, in paragraph
form; do not use the tables.)
• Relevant early childhood education theories for your discipline specific action
research proposal: In one paragraph,
o Describe one to two early childhood education theories that could be used to
support your proposal.
• Basic terminology and concepts related to the issues you will discuss:
o Provide an alphabetized list of research related terms and definitions from
scholarly or credible resources. This list is used to help the reader, who may
be unfamiliar with your topic, understand your proposal.
• Two research summaries:
o Select two scholarly or credible research articles.
o Summarize the intervention, strategies, procedures, and instruments used in
the chosen study that have been found to be productive in investigating your
topic and area of focus.
• Application of findings and author’s position:
o Determine the intervention that you will use to address your area of focus,
based on your review of the literature.
o Discuss why you feel this intervention is the best approach for your action
research study and why you believe it meets the needs you have outlined in
statement of problem.
o Explain any changes you will make to the intervention based on the study you
have outlined. For example, do your classroom, school, center, or
organizational needs differ from those in the study.
• This heading should be five pages.
Heading 3: The Proposed Study/Research (review and revise from Week 3 assignment)
• Intervention Plan: In two pages,
o Describe in chronological order how you will implement your intervention
and provide a hypothetical yet practical timeframe for these steps.
o You may include a chart that organizes how you would implement your
intervention from week to week.
▪ This will be a timeline including dates and tasks.
▪ Your chart could include date, tasks, people, location, etc.
o Ethical Considerations: Informed Consent and Institutional Review Board
(IRB) Approval: In two paragraphs,
▪ Discuss how you would approach informed consent and IRB Approval
if you were to implement your action research study.
▪ Explain how you would ensure that participants enter the research of
their free will and with an understanding of the study and any
potential dangers.
o Ethical Considerations: Freedom from Harm: In one to two paragraphs,
▪ Explain how the literature you reviewed and your plan for
implementation leads you to believe what you are doing is an
appropriate intervention and not exposing your participants to risk.
o Ethical Considerations: Anonymity and Confidentiality: In one paragraph,
▪ Explain your planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality
to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.
o This heading should be five pages.
Heading 4: Data Collection and Intervention Plan (review and revise from Week 4
assignment)
• Data Collected: In two paragraphs,
o Justify one qualitative (experience-based) or quantitative (number-based)
instrument that would be used in your proposed study to collect data on the
effectiveness of your intervention in answering your research question.
o Provide support from the research, literature, and textbook to explain why
this would be an effective method for data collection.
• Data Collection Procedures: In three paragraphs,
o Describe your procedures for collecting data in your proposed action
research study. This is where you explain how you are using your intervention
to collect data.
• Data Collection Considerations: In two pages discuss credibility, transferability,
dependability, and confirmability:
o Discuss how you will establish trustworthiness of your action research study,
using Lincoln and Guba’s Quality Criteria for Trustworthiness.
o Intervention Plan: In two pages provide your proposed timeline,
o Describe your data collection procedures and provide a narrative description
of your proposal (elevator speech). Be sure to also address how your data
collection will reflect trustworthiness, and the ethical considerations related
to anonymity and confidentiality.
o This heading should be five pages.
o Heading 5: Author’s Reflection (review Week 1 Discussion and Week 5
Assignment)
o Author’s Reflection: In this section,
o Hypothesize what you think will be the outcome of the proposed research
study.
o Share your thoughts of what about your research question will change or
improve as a result of your study, so that you connect your deep
understanding of the issue (literature review) to your research question.
o Critique your own understanding of action research as a result of
constructing your action research proposal.
https://bit.ly/3qbL85u
o How has your understanding of action research changed since the
discussion in week 1?
o Discuss how action research can strengthen your practices in your current or
future role as an early childhood professional.
o Forecast how you could use action research in being a change agent and
leader in early childhood education.
o This heading should be five pages.
o References: (Include in Week 6 Summative/Final Paper)
o On a separate reference page include a minimum of 12 scholarly or credible
sources, in addition to the course textbook (include all sources referenced in
the Week 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 assignments), are required.
o Appendix A: Instrument (Include in Week 6 Summative/Final Paper)
o Instrument:
o Design one instrument or identify an existing instrument, either quantitative
or qualitative, that you could use to collect data to answer your research
question and to determine the effectiveness of your intervention.
o This heading should be two pages.
o Last Steps
o Review your final paper with the Grading Rubric to ensure you have achieved
the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion. Submit the
assignment for evaluation no later than Day 7. Be sure to incorporate the
feedback received from your instructor and peers into this final paper.
o The Final Action Resource Proposal final paper
o Must be 25 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references
pages) and formatted according to APA Style.
https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/apa-style
