r&d for the high school classroom -day 4

Implementing Research and Development into the High School Classroom

Day Four…Yipee!!!!!

July 11, 2013Illinois State UniversityWIP-5 Grant

http://RandDforHS.wikispaces.com

Workshop Review

Parklands

Today

Writing a Procedure/Proposal (Ch. 2)

CeMaST Equipment

Writing a Proposal (Ch. 5)

Develop a procedure

Peer Edit

Lunch

Parklands!

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Chapter 2

Harland, Darci J. (2011). STEM Student Research Handbook. Arlington: NSTA Press.

Your Commitment Page 19

ResearchDesign Table

Page 33

Your Commitment

HypothesisDraftChapter 4

Your Commitment

Background Questions

What do you need to know about your topic?

Your Commitment

Background Questions

Skills I

need? How will I record data?

Can I measure that?

What would bemy control?

What extraneous

variables might I

need to control?

Entity

background?

Ethics & Safety?

Your Commitment Page 18

Independent VariableWhat do you need

to know about your topic?

The ONE thing you are changing (to test)

IMPORTANT

!

Your Commitment Page 18

Independent Variable

Manipulate

dVariable

Must be measurable

Safe &

ethical to

manipulate

Your Commitment Page 18

Dependent Variable

What do you need to know about your topic?

The ONE thing you are changing (to test)

What you’ll

measure

Your Commitment Page 18

Dependent Variable

Responding

Variable

What you measure

The “effect” or data you will collect

Quantitative vs.Qualitative

Your Commitment Page 26Quat vs. Qual

Your Commitment Page 31

Your Commitment Page 25

Constants

What do you need to know about your topic?

The ONE thing you are changing (to test)

What you’ll

measure.

What needs to remain the same for each group/trial.

Your Commitment Page 25

Constants

pH

pressure

temperature

lighting

When data

are collected

humidity

How data are collected

Your Commitment

Constants

The “C” words

ControlResearch design

Things you do the same for every trial or group

A group/trial used to compare to the experimental groups

Needed to show what “normally happens.”

Needed to “control” for extraneous variables.

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Your Commitment Page 19- 22

GroupsWhat do you need to know about your topic?

The ONE thing you are changing (to test)

What you’ll

measure.

What needs to remain the same for each group/trial.

Control

ExperimentalGroups

Your Commitment

Extraneous Variables

Constants

How would you keep (experimental)

groupsfrom cheating?

Control for by setting up

Your Commitment Page 33

Go!What do you need to know about your topic?

The ONE thing you are changing (to test)

What you’ll

measure.

What needs to remain the same for each group/trial.

In Your Groups

CeMaST

Let’s go get equipment!

Proposal

Your Plan

Procedure

Materials

How data are collectedHypothesis

Page 68

Literature

Review

Procedure

Protocol

Methods

Also called Format OptionsList of directions

Narrative

Play with Methods

Research

Background Pretrials/pilot tests

Design equipment

Test methods/skills

Page 70

Frequency of DataPage 71

How many groups?How fast can measurements be taken?

Scientific WritingPage 73-75

Your Commitment Page 72

?’s to help writing MethodsHow will data be collected?

How will measurements be taken?

How will data be measured or obtained?

What tools and techniques will be used?

How will qualitative observations be recorded?

How often will data be collected?

How does design address extraneous variables?

Tomorrow

Dr. Normal LaFave

Scientist, engineer, author, and teacherErin ColfaxNJ Teachers; year-long research course: Topic Literature ReviewMeBackground Research (Ch. 3)