Module 5 Literature Review Work

Introduction

This week is reserved for you to take a deep dive into finding and reading articles around your proposed action research topic of interest. You want to fine-tune your Research Questions as you read more literature about your chosen topic. This week's content continues to focus on gathering information, organizing, and writing your Literature Review. Helpful guidelines and strategies are shared as you begin the process of drafting your literature review. Some introductory information is shared about using APA to reference your sources of information. Use your time wisely this week!

Module Learning Outcomes

Course learners will:

MLO 5.1 Learn how to format APA Style references for journal articles and websites for action research project plan.
MLO 5.2 Learn how to format APA Style references for using in-text quotes and in-text paraphrasing in the literature review and action research project plan.

Review:

MLO 4.1 Read and analyze research articles/studies aligned with an action research topic.

Weekly Message

Read

No new textbook readings this week.
Read research articles about action research topic of interest!

Resources

EDUC 515 Class Resource Page

Weekly Content

Writing a Literature Review

You are busy searching and reading about research that is connected to your action research topic of interest. It's time to think about how to organize 'what you are reading' into a coherent literature review that will be part of your action research project plan. In this video, Dr. Crawford shares some insight into what a literature review is and some guidance to think about when writing the review.

Literature Review: An Overview

The video below provides an excellent overview of the steps it takes to write a literature review. This video outlines types of literature reviews. Although our literature review is a 'class assignment' (selective, stands by itself) it is part of a larger body of work - that being your action research project plan. The literature review is Part #5 of our action research project plan.

Pay close attention to the part of the video where they talk about writing around concept A, concept B, and concept C associated with your research topic. The goal is to synthesize and organize what you are learning around possible subheadings that collectively, will contribute to a concise literature review.

Referencing Sources: APA Style

One important task for you to keep up with during your review of the literature is to make sure references (Part #13) are kept and documented. Your best option is to use something like Zotero to collect and manage your citations. In this video, Dr. Crawford will share some introductory information to guide the development of a reference list and how to use the citations to document an in-text paraphrase and an in-text quote. These are writing skills you will apply while composing your literature review.

Quick Check

Directions: Answer the following questions.

Question 1: Select the correct usage of in-text citation in APA style.

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) was introduced to the educational research field as a conceptual framework for understanding teacher knowledge required for effective technology integration (Punya Mishra and Matt Koehler).: Incorrect.
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) was introduced to the educational research field as a conceptual framework for understanding teacher knowledge required for effective technology integration (Mishra & Koehler).: Incorrect.
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) was introduced to the educational research field as a conceptual framework for understanding teacher knowledge required for effective technology integration (Mishra & Koehler, 2006).: Correct.
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) was introduced to the educational research field as a conceptual framework for understanding teacher knowledge required for effective technology integration (Mishra and Koehler, 2006).: Incorrect.

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Question 2: Select the correct usage of in-text citation in APA style.

Archambault and Crippen (2009) developed a survey-based approach for measuring TPACK based on a sample of 596 K–12 online teachers.: Correct.
Leanna Archambault and Kent Crippen (2009) developed a survey-based approach for measuring TPACK based on a sample of 596 K–12 online teachers.: Incorrect.
Leanna Archambault and Kent Crippen in their study "Examining TPACK among K-12 online distance educators in the United States" (2009) developed a survey-based approach for measuring TPACK based on a sample of 596 K–12 online teachers.: Incorrect.
Archambault & Crippen developed a survey-based approach for measuring TPACK based on a sample of 596 K–12 online teachers.: Incorrect.

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Weekly Activities

Action Research Project Plan: Where Are We?

You will develop and write the action research project plan throughout the semester. Each week this section will be updated to indicate what parts of the action research project plan you should be writing and when certain parts should be finished. Please use this to guide your development of the action research project plan.

We are holding steady at the moment as we take time to gather literature aligned with your action research topic. Next week, we'll move on and talk about additional parts of the action research plan.