Attached are 2 examples.

You probably have a lot of ideas already based on discrepancies in education that you have noted. These discrepancies are a good way to get started in narrowing down to a formal research question. Your job for this assignment:

1. Find a starting point – use at least two strategies to find your starting point.
2. Clarify your starting point – use at least two strategies to clarify your starting point.
3. Determine a viable action research topic that you can work with during the course.
4. Pose a question which you would like to answer related to the topic you choose. For example: “Does personal home-school communication via student agenda improve student assignment completion for 6th grade students?”

You may submit a written report of your ideas (2 – 3 pages, max), or you may submit a powerpoint detailing your ideas and your thinking process (10 – 15 slide max). Please be sure to include pictures on your slides!

Altricher, H. & Feldman, A., Posch, P. & Somekh, B. (2008). Teachers Investigate Their Work. (2nd ed.) New York, NY: Routledge

Sagor, R. D. (2011). The action research guidebook: A four-stage process for educators and school teams (2nd ed.). Corwin/Sage. 

**I do not have a link to this book so you will need to use the internet in order to complete this.