Thesis Seminar Week 9: Method IV

Participants (one paragraph)

Who are your participants?
- Avoid using their names but what are their titles, responsibilities, and/or rank?
- What demographic information relates to your study (i.e., answering your research questions, purpose, problem, etc.)?
  - Age
  - Experience working at the school and/or overall years of experience
  - Gender
  - Groups currently teaching and/or groups taught? Ages of the students, levels of the students, group sizes, etc.
  - School information: public or provide, general location (city), size, mission and vision, etc.
  - Socioeconomic information
Why did you choose your participants?
- Explain the rationale for choosing participants
What permissions did you get to collect your data from your participants
- Informed consent form
- Any other special permissions

Describe the instruments and procedure used to collect the data to answer your research questions. Describe your instruments and include a citation to the appendix section (e.g., “(see Appendix A)”, “(see Appendix B)”, etc.). Organize the paragraph chronologically in a way that would facilitate one to replicate your study.

The data analysis will be discussed during our next whole-group session, April 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM in our regular classroom.
In this section, include how you analyzed your data throughout the entire data collection process.
For qualitative research, include how you coded and categorized your data, including any software used.
Describe how you analyzed descriptive data (i.e., quantitative data) to create tables and/or figures showing percentages, frequencies, etc.