Mixed methods meta analyses planning your intervention
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The document discusses mixed methods research designs, meta-analyses, and literature reviews. It notes that mixed methods designs typically combine quantitative and qualitative research to provide a broader understanding of a phenomenon. Meta-analyses use statistics to examine patterns across quantitative studies. Literature reviews survey research on a topic but do not statistically analyze studies. The document also provides guidance for writing a blog post reflecting on a literature review and how it informed instructional practices, and for planning an intervention that is informed by research.
Mixed methods meta analyses planning your intervention
- 1. Curriculum and Research in Literacy and Language Arts Monday, July 22, 2013 Mixed Methods and Meta Analyses Planning Your Intervention
- 2. Write a Blog Post • Reflect on the experience of doing your lit review in helping you to solve your instructional problem. Was it helpful? Did you get ideas for practice? What research studies did you gravitate towards? Which seemed the most useful to practice? Which seemed the most useful to developing theory? What were challenges you faced in finding, reading, thinking about the research you found? Would you incorporate the process (save the writing) into your teaching practice?
- 3. Mixed-Methods Designs • Triangulation • Differing perspectives provide a broader view of a phenomenon. • Typical combination: Looking at a larger sample quantitatively and then a subset of that sample qualitatively to provide a more in-depth understanding of the larger results (e.g., Blum et al., 2002)
- 4. Meta-Analysis • What does the research say? • Using statistics to look at a set of quantitative research studies to see what larger patterns exist in the literature. • Can have same readability issues as quantitative studies if one does not understand the statistical analysis or results.
- 5. Literature Reviews • What does the research say? • Still question-based. • A survey of the literature on a particular topic. Differs from meta-analyses in that there is no attempt to unify the studies statistically. • Can give a broad overview of the literature, but is constructed by the author who has biases, faults, etc. • Can include quantitative and qualitative studies.
- 6. Planning Your Intervention • Everyone’s intervention will look different. o A routine you’ve developed to incorporate in your classroom. o A unit plan description. o Descriptions of activities you are adding to your tool box as a result of the research. • In depth, narrative. No lesson plans, but significant handouts and rubrics should be included. • Remember that your audience is other teachers.
- 7. The Discussion Section • This is where you explicitly tie the research you cited in your literature review with your practice. • Show us your thought process. Implicitly, it might be there. Make it explicit. • Looking at the sample paper, identify three places where the author ties her intervention practices to the research she states.