The cTC Inquiry Team

The cTC Inquiry Team is made up of former and current technology mentors and integrators who are interested in evaluating the impact of technology integration within classrooms and participating institutions.   Each member of the cTC Inquiry Team will be designing and conducting action research during the academic year and presenting preliminary results at the Statewide Summit on May 4th .  

One goal of this project is to create an edited volume highlighting the entire project (year 1 and 2), with the action research projects serving as chapters in the edited volume.   The goal, at this time, is to submit a book proposal sometime during the Spring semester.

Specific deliverables for members of the cTC Inquiry Team, include:

• An action research plan (by end of Fall semester)
• Human Subjects approval for your action research project (by end of Fall semester)
• Data collection and write up of a preliminary action research report (by end of Spring semester)
• Presentation of preliminary results at Statewide Summit on May 4th.  

The Inquiry Team spent Friday, February 24th fine-tuning their research designs and writing plans.

A few helpful websites:

Southern Cross University's Action Research Site includes some resources as well as some listproc's for those interested in doing action research.   Also included is a link to Action Research International , an online action research journal.   Available at http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html

George Mason University's action research site contains a lot of interesting and helpful information about teacher action research http://gse.gmu.edu/research/tr/TRaction.shtml

This article on teacher research by Sharon Parson's contains a lot of good information about action research as well as helpful step-by-step guidelines http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/TL/AR/

Online Action Research Journals:

Educational Action Research http://www.triangle.co.uk/ear/

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research http://education.ucsc.edu/faculty/gwells/networks/links.html

Online survey tools:

• surveymonkey.com (http://www.surveymonkey.com/)
• zoomerang.com (http://info.zoomerang.com/)
• web-online-survey.com (http://web-online-surveys.com/)
• surveywriter.com (http://www.surveywriter.com/site/index.html)
• coolsurveys.com (http://www.coolsurveys.com/)

NUD*IST, NVivo, or N6 info at QSR website ( http://www.qsrinternational.com/products/ )

SPSS Text Analysis for surveys ( http://www.spss.com/textanalysis_surveys/ )