EDUC 7346

Final Project Report (outline for)
Spring, 2003

Professor Margaret Eisenhart

I. Research Problem, Purpose Statement, Conceptual Framework and Research Questions.

II. Describe your Methods of Data Collection:

A. Participant Observation

1) What kind of participant observer were you? What roles did you play and why?

2) Who did you observe; when, where, and why?

B. Ethnographic Interviewing

1) What kinds of interviews did you do? What kind of questions did you ask and why?

2) Who did you interview: when, where, and why?

C. Journal Writing

1) When did you write your journal and what kinds of things are in it?

D. Document Search

1) What kinds of documents or other tangible artifacts did you collect about your group?

III. Describe your Analysis Procedures: Describe the analysis done on each data source; describe the steps taken in comparison analyses (across data sets).

IV. Describe the Limitations of your data collection and analysis procedures.

V. Describe your Findings.

A. Introduce your group (try to present a "picture"
of the group that will bring it alive
for readers who don't know the group).

B. For each of your research questions (one-at-a-time),
discuss your findings pertinent to it; illustrate the findings
with excerpts from the data or analyses.

VI. Conclusions: Integrate all your findings into a final interpretation of the group's culture (those aspects you studied). What do you know about the research problem that you did not know when you started the project? What are the limitations of your interpretation? Based on your conclusions, what would you want to do next to explore your research problem further?



Checklist of Appendices for Final Project Report

_____ Participant/observation guidelines
_____ Interview questions
_____ Fieldnotes of two participant/observation sessions
_____ Typed transcript of one interview
_____ Transcript or tape of second interview
_____ Journal entries for the two participant/observation sessions and the two interviews
_____ Representative documents, if appropriate
_____ Two-part analysis of first participant/observation session and accompanying journal
_____ Two-part analysis of second participant/observation session and accompanying journal
_____ Two-part analysis of first interview and accompanying journal
_____ Two-part analysis of second interview and accompanying journal
_____ One analysis of documents



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