EDUC 894 Week 13

Important Goals and Techniques for Reporting Discussion of the Readings

Group-work & Team Consultations Report 3’s back 5:00-5:20

--------------------Dinner Break------------------- 5:50-6:10, 6:15-6:35, 6:40-7:00, 7:05-7:25, 7:30-

7:50 For Next Week

Final Reports Presentations Peer Evals, Research Reflection, Course Eval

Compile Deliverables 1, 2 and 3 Remove redundancies Complete edits based on Deliverable

Feedback Do a pass for smoothing / consistency Craft a conclusion section to complete the

research cycle (1-2 paragraphs) Summarize Key Findings Implications for Practice Ideas for Future Research

15 minute presentations + 5 min for Q

All team members should give some part of the presentation

Goal = communicate what you’ve learned about your research topic with the class + guests

4:30-4:40 Administrata4:45-5:05 Xi, Farshid, Trisha & Derek5:10-5:30 Jill5:35-5:55 Bal & Sundeep

--------Bio Break--------6:05-6:25 Sally, Dave, Andrew & Jon-Paul6:30-6:50 Sherina6:55-7:15 Robin & Sandra

American Physicist Nobel Prize (QED) 1965 Part of the Manhattan Project Early nanoscience proponent

Popularizer of Physics If we can’t explain it so that

freshman understand, then we don’t understand it well enough

Prankster, Eccentric, Buffoon, Iconoclast "... I think I can safely say that nobody really

understands Quantum Mechanics"Image Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman.PNG

Cargo Cult Science vs. Scientific Integrity First you have to not fool yourself

Things to think about1. Do his comments only apply to

(or allow for) objectivist research?2. What might his type of “integrity”

look like in education research?3. Why can it be hard to do what he

suggests?

Image Source: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/ardlouis/dissipative/richard_feynman.jpg

The importance of a warrant Explicit chain of reasoning from

evidence to conclusions Examples

Things to think about1. In what ways are his arguments

similar to Feynman’s?

1. In what way are they different?

Image Source: http://www.education.bham.ac.uk/staff/gorard_stephen.shtml

3. Do his comments only allow for objectivist research?

4. Does he “get” constructivist / qualitative work?