Assignment Description: Inquiry Design (100 points) Due 6/12

A 3-5 page paper presenting an inquiry project on a topic of interest. This paper is based
on the outline form provided to help identify design elements; the paper itself is to be in
paragraph form. The paper should include:
1) Title Page including the following:
a. Inquiry Question
b. Student Researchers name
c. Institution (WSUV) and Program (Ed.M.)
d. Date of submission
2) Self Evaluation and Peer Review
a. You are responsible for obtaining and responding to strong peer review. Seek
additional peer review if a first review is weak.
3) Design of 3-4 pages formatted as a paper in APA style (paragraphs and headings) and
including in any logical order:
a. Inquiry Question (and possible Sub-questions)
b. Educational and personal significance of the topic and planned project (e.g. why
this project matters, why it matters to me)
c. Reference to relevant literature, briefly, with citations but dont over-do.
Maintain focus on data collection and analysis, remembering that a design is not
a literature review.
d. Context describing contextual aspects relevant to the topic or question (e.g. for
a study of a reading strategy, the students reading levels- but not school
enrollment)
e. Inquiry approach (e.g. quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, action research,
case study, etc.)
f. Data collection methods (e.g. survey, interview, observation, review of
documents and artifacts, tests how many, over what period of time, what
length). Include information about triangulation and validation.
g. Subjects primary and secondary participants, the number of participants, how
and why they are (will be) selected.
h. Ethics how informed consent, confidentiality, sensitivity will be handled
i. (Optional) Timeline for completion of the project
4) References
a. List each source cited in your design and no others, following APA format.
(Note: there is no need to cite each source from your Annotated Bibliography,
just those that help show significance to your planned inquiry)