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Data Collection

It is the evidence

It changes our practice

It helps making wise instructional choises

There are three types

Obeservations

Interviews

Artifacts/documents

Principles of Research Data

Purpose-driven

Pairing research and data

It requires criteria to be evaluated

It needs interpretation and action

Watch and listen to gather information as a participant in the classroom

Inquiring into another's insight (students, mentor teachers, etc.)

Physical evidence that sheds additional info on the research question

Note-taking, logs, checklist, mapping, video and audio, etc.

Survey, questionnaire, formal an informal interv., sociogram, etc.

Student work, internet postings, portfolios, test scores, attendance records

CQ

Observation

Interview

Artefacts

Researcher's notebook