Dear ECE660,

For this week’s assignment, please only submit the section we are working on. It takes time to find where your new section starts which limits my time working on the assignment itself. Below is the only section to include in your submission for week 4.

The page requirement is 4-5 pages and 4 resources to support your ideas.

Week 4 – Assignment

Content Expectations

• The following content areas are required in this assignment.
  Intervention Planning and Ethical Considerations:
• Intervention Description: In one- to two-pages, explain your proposed intervention. Explain why you think your population will benefit from the intervention and how it could result in improvements in the area or variable you want to influence. Ensure your explanation draws on the literature you are using to support this choice of intervention.(This is where you need to use your articles to support your ideas)
• Intervention Plan: In one to two pages, describe in chronological order how you will implement your intervention and provide a hypothetical yet practical timeframe for these steps. You may include a chart that organizes how you would implement your intervention from week to week.(Make a list of steps that you would go through to get this/ these new interventions in place in your center or classroom)
• Ethical Considerations – Informed Consent and IRB Approval: In one to 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.(You need to get permission before conducting research on students or teachers. Make sure this information is clear. There are always dangers, some minor and some major, all need to be listed).
• 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.(Another place to use your articles as support. Explain how you will keep participants safe).
• Ethical Considerations – Anonymity and Confidentiality: In one paragraph, explain your planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.(This is a continuation of the Ethical consideration about keeping participants safe. You can do this through keeping participants anonymous; explain how you value participants’ confidentiality. )

• Research and Resource Expectations

• A minimum of four scholarly, peer-reviewed sources, in addition to the course textbook, are required. Sources from your literature review may be used.These resources could include our textbook, your articles, past textbooks, etc.

Please let me know if you have questions.

This week you will work on the next section of your Action Research Proposal, Intervention Planning. Informed by your review of the literature and your knowledge of problem you want to address through your action research, you will plan how you will design and implement your intervention. Further, based on your proposed intervention and the context of your role and setting, you will analyze the ethical considerations, such as informed consent, Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, freedom from harm, and anonymity and confidentiality, that you would need to confront if you were to implement this research in your work setting. Please be sure to carefully review the Instructor Guidance, the course Anchor Paper, and course readings for this week to inform the development of this assignment.

*Reminder to Students: 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. For many of the discussions and assignments, you are building on your work each week, so it is appropriate 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 make revisions to each section of your proposal based on instructor and peer feedback prior to your final version in the Final Action Research Proposal, so be sure to revisit the feedback you have received from your instructor and classmates each week to continuously refine your proposal throughout the course.

• Content Expectations
  • The following content areas are required in this assignment.
    Intervention Planning and Ethical Considerations:
  • Intervention Description: In one- to two-pages, explain your proposed intervention. Explain why you think your population will benefit from the intervention and how it could result in improvements in the area or variable you want to influence. Ensure your explanation draws on the literature you are using to support this choice of intervention.
  • Intervention Plan: In one to two pages, describe in chronological order how you will implement your intervention and provide a hypothetical yet practical timeframe for these steps. You may include a chart that organizes how you would implement your intervention from week to week.
  • Ethical Considerations – Informed Consent and IRB Approval: In one to 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.
  • 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.
  • Ethical Considerations – Anonymity and Confidentiality: In one paragraph, explain your planned measures to use anonymity and confidentiality to avoid privacy invasion and potential harm.
• Research and Resource Expectations
  • A minimum of four scholarly, peer-reviewed sources, in addition to the course textbook, are required. Sources from your literature review may be used.
• Writing and Formatting Expectations
  • Title Page: Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Academic Voice: Academic Voice is used (avoids casual language, limited use of “I” or first person, it is declarative).
  • Purpose and Organization: Demonstrates logical progression of ideas.
  • Syntax and Mechanics: Writing displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
  • APA Formatting: Papers are formatted properly and all sources are cited and referenced in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Suggested Assignment Length
  • This assignment should be about four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages).
• Next Steps
  • Review and Submit the Assignment: Review your assignment 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.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.