Action Research How to easily incorporate evidence based research into your practice
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Action Research How to easily incorporate
evidence based research into your practice
ACRL Pre-conference (ALA Annual Conference)
Friday, June 24, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Learning OutcomesLearning Outcomes
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Action Research Cycle
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Types of Action Research4
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Action Research is…6
Informed by concerns about practice/praxisConducted and often initiated by the
librarian(s)impacted as their expertise is valued
CollaborativeCritical, deliberative, and self-reflexiveInstigated with the goal of changing practices,
processes, policies, theories, or systemsApplicable to the local context
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Getting to know…
YOU!
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Plan8
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Task: Consider Your Work 9
• Take a moment to think about your own work. What’s problematic?
• Talk to members of your group. Do you share any questions/problems in common?
• Generate one or two questions you’d like to investigate.
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Problems/Questions10
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Task: Plan Using Scenarios11
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METHODOLOGY INTERLUDE
BUT FIRST: WORLDVIEWS (ESPECIALLY PRAGMATISM)
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Act
WORLDVIEW RESEARCH FOCUS
Pragmatism Problem centered
Postpositivism Theory verification, Objectivity
Constructivism Multiple meanings, Subjectivity
Advocacy Empowerment, Change oriented
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Quantitative Inquiry
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Intent: see how data fits an existing theory, model, or explanation
Ask close-ended questions
Collect and analyze numbers; Statistics
Large samples
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Qualitative Inquiry
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Act Intent: learn participants’ views
Ask open-ended questions
Collect and analyze words and images; themes
Small Samples
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ActQuantitative Qualitative
Collection•Quasi-experiment•Close-ended Survey•Usage Statistics
Collection•Interview•Open-ended Survey•Focus Group•Observation
Analysis•Descriptive statistics•Cross-Tabulation•Correlation•Comparing Means
Analysis•Coding•Discourse analysis
TYPICAL METHODS
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ActQuantitative Qualitative
•Statistical methods: -rejecting hypotheses -calculating effect sizes
•Large, random or representative samples
•Take steps to remove researcher bias
•Coding methods: -identifying themes
•Small samples studied in depth in their natural environment
•Peer review of data and analyses; reciprocity with participants
VALIDITY
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Qualitative data enhance quantitative findings because they explain the statistical relationships
Qualitative data can inform instrument design for a later quantitative phase
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MIXED METHODS:
“clarify subtleties, cross-validate findings, and inform efforts to plan, implement, and evaluate strategies”Creswell & Clark (2007). Designing and conducting mixed methods research.
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Act
MIXED METHODS, 4 DESIGNS:
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•Identified problem
•Wrote & administered survey
• Summarized findings from qualitative data
• Summarized findings from quantitative data
• Fold findings into learning objectives
•Create a training rubric
•Link objectives to ACRL/IRIG draft standards for Visual Literacy in higher education
PLAN…ACT…
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Break for 10 minutes. When we come back, we’ll …
o Collect datao Analyze datao Continue talking to our collaborators
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DEMO:
Many Eyes Tableau Public Excel LIWC Tag Crowd Word text.stat
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HTTP://WWW-958.IBM.COM/SOFTWARE/DATA/COGNOS/MANYEYES/
Many Eyes24
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Year July August October November December January February March
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2009/2010 11111 10303 18547 15831 7963 17956 17026 15630
2008/2009 11327 10847 20498 17366 10649 20419 18815 17989
Many Eyes
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HTTP://WWW.TABLEAUSOFTWARE.COM/PUBLIC
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Microsoft Excel44
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Microsoft Excel
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HTTP://WWW.LIWC.NET/TRYONLINE.PHP
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)
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Tag Crowd53
HTTP://TAGCROWD.COM/
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Tag Crowd
http://today.uci.edu/facts/rankings_distinctions.php
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Text Stat60
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Your Turn: Data Analysis
Task: Analyze data
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Reflect
Think about how the findings will impact your own work.
What will you change?
Do you now have new questions? How can you explore those?
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Think about the process you just completed.
What did you like about it?
What would you change?
How else could you investigate the problem/issue?
What other data could you collect?
Task: Your Turn to Reflect
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Task: ShareGO TO THE OTHER GROUP THAT WORKED ON THE SAME SCENARIO.
CHOOSE A PARTNER OR WORK IN A TRIO.
ANSWER QUESTIONS ON THE RIGHT
Did the other group tackle the scenario in the same way?
What are the similarities/differences between approaches?
Which would be more effective?
How else could you investigate the problem/issue?
What data would you collect?
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Your turn: Plan your own project
Identify potential collaborators
What problems are you having?
Identify the information you need
How might you analyze that information?
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Applying the Action Research
Methodology