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August - September |
- Identify research area (Field of Action)
- Visit UCSD library and online libraries, read enough subject-focused literature and methodology literature to give me a reasonable foundation, and prepare for literature review
- Prepare content form for the students and their parents, and distribute to the students
- Install Chinese computing capability in the computer lab
- Design initial Action Research Plan
- Consult with MM for confirmation of the research direction
- Setup three groups of Tapped-in accounts for students (k-12 student accounts)
- Have students set up their blog addresses
- Get critical friends
- Tell students of my plan get their supports and carry out the plan
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October |
- Continue with literature research
- Implement the plan for cycle one
- Students start to use Tapped-In and blogs
- Conduct case studies
- Collect data from Tapped-in transcripts
- Collect data from case studies
- Collect data from students' blogs
- Collect data from students' first quarter class average grades, and compare them with their last year's first quarter grades.
- Distribute questionnaires
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November |
- Review questionnaires
- Review data
- Write the cycle one report
- Contact the Chinese teacher at Mercersburg
- Contact the school in China
- Exchange my students' email addresses with those of students' in China and Mercersburg
- Start project-based learning (cycle two)
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December - January
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- Collect data from the project-based learning
- Collect data from students' reflection on their project learning.
- Collect data from students' first semester class average grades, and compare them with their last year's first semester grades.
- Distribute questionnaires
- Review data
- Review questionnaires
- Continue reflection and make determinations for next steps
- Determine missing elements from MM, critical friends, cadre mates
- Start cycle two
- Revise Action Research Plan
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Februry |
- Continue with literature review with emphsis on learner-centered construction learning, authentic learning with the native speakers, and effective communication (dialogue) within community
- Collect Data for the 2nd quarter's learner-centered contstruction learning, including student's portfolio and their reflections on their blogs, etc.
- Learn data analysis with LC cadre mates
- Implement project that is collaborated between my students and their e-pals in China
- Introduce what I have learned and student's products to the faculty and department, get their feedback.
- Review questionnaires
- Review data
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March |
- Write cycle two report.
- Continue reflection and make determinations for next step
- Determine missing elements from MM, critical friends, cadre mates
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April |
- Share cyce two report with faculty
- Prepare and implement for final cycle.
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May/June |
- Put all the data together and work on my research/presentation
- Write the final report
- Prepare for presentation
- Continue to facilitate student's learning
- Continue assessment
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July |
Presentation
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