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EDUC 701: CP: Research Question and Course Project Outline Instructions
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Check My Assignment!You will submit a research question and a course project outline to your instructor. Later in this course, you will use your research question and outline to write your Final Paper.
Tips for Developing a Research Question
From the problem you have identified in Discussion Board Module/Week 2, develop a quality research question. It is essential to develop a specific research question that holds your interest so that you can focus your research and your paper. For example, researching a broad topic such as “Education Leadership” is difficult, since there may be hundreds of sources on all aspects of educational leadership. On the other hand, a focused question such as “What impact does a principal’s leadership style have on teacher burnout?” is easier to research and can be covered in more depth.
Put your research question in the following form:
“What impact does _____________ have on ____________?”
Tips for Developing an Outline
Later in this course, you will use your research question to write a Final Paper (i.e. Your Course Project or CP). Develop an outline similar to the one below. You will use this outline to help plan for the course project.
For example, say your research question is “What impact does a principal’s leadership style have on teacher burnout?”
Ask yourself, what type of information do I need to answer the research question?
Break the research question into individual parts before starting your research. For example:
· Find articles, research studies, and theories on leadership styles (Annotated Bibliography #1)
· Find articles, research studies, and theories on teacher burnout (Annotated Bibliography #2)
· Find articles, research studies, and theories on the principal/teacher burnout relationship (Annotated Bibliography #3)
Below is an Example Outline. For this course, write your outline in “first person” in terms of what you will do for each section of your paper. This is NOT to be an outline of the final paper. It is an outline of the steps YOU will take to write the final paper.
Example Outline
I. Introduction
A. Introduce the problem
1. I will explain the problem, how the problem was identified, and why it needs further study and research.
2. I will include practices, policies, or procedures that have led to the problem (use citations).
B. Importance of the problem.
1. I will discuss the importance of the problem and its significance to teaching and learning (use citations).
2. I will discuss steps, if any, that have already been taken to address the problem (use citations).
C. Research question (Place the research question at the end of the introduction).
1. I will address the following question:
“What impact does principal leadership styles have on teacher burnout?”
II. Literature Review (You may not have read enough of the literature to know the subtopics at this point. If that is the case, then just write Subtopic 1, Subtopic 2, and Subtopic 3 for the A, B, C. For the 1 under each subtopic, just write that you will address subtopic one, two, three, etc.
A. Principal leadership styles
1. I will address the topic of educational leadership styles.
B. Teacher burnout
1. I will address the topic of teacher burnout
C. Principals’ leadership styles and teacher burnout
1. I will address the relationship between principal leadership style and teacher burnout.
(Yours may look like this:)
A. Subtopic 1
1. I will address subtopic 1
B. Subtopic 2
1. I will address subtopic 2
C. Subtopic 3
1. I will address subtopic 3
III. Association to Learning Theory (Use the terms Subtopic 1, Subtopic 2 and Subtopic 3 here as you did in section II.
A. Principal leadership styles
1. I will connect the subtopic of principal leadership styles to a learning theory or learning theories.
B. Teacher burnout
1. I will connect the subtopic teacher burnout to a learning theory or learning theories
C. Principals’ leadership style and teacher burnout
1. I will connect the subtopic of the relationship between principal leadership style and teacher burnout to a learning theory or learning theories.
(Yours may look like this):
A. Subtopic 1
1. I will connect subtopic 1 to a learning theory or learning theories.
B. Subtopic 2
1. I will connect subtopic 2 to teacher burnout to a learning theory or learning theories
C. Subtopic 2
1. I will connect subtopic 3 to a learning theory or learning theories.
IV. Definitions(I will make a list of definitions with citations)
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1. Transitional leadership
2. Transformational leadership
3. Teacher burnout
4. etc…
V. Gaps in the research
A. I will provide recommendations for future research.
VI. Biblical world view (use citations)
A. I will address the problem of leadership/teacher burnout from a biblical world view.
1. I will Google search the phrase “A Christian perspective on leadership.”
2. I will Google search the phrase “A Christian perspective on burnout.”
VII. Conclusion
A. I will end with a summary of the paper and overall conclusion.
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