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Action Research How to easily incorporate evidence based research into your practice

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. Learning Outcomes. Learning Outcomes. Action Research Cycle.

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Action Research How to easily incorporate evidence based research into your practice

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  1. 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

  2. Learning Outcomes Learning Outcomes

  3. Action Research Cycle

  4. Types of Action Research

  5. Action Research is… Informed by concerns about practice/praxis Conducted and often initiated by the librarian(s) impacted as their expertise is valued Collaborative Critical, deliberative, and self-reflexive Instigated with the goal of changing practices, processes, policies, theories, or systems Applicable to the local context

  6. Getting to know…YOU!

  7. Plan

  8. Task: Consider Your Work • 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.

  9. Problems/Questions ?????????????????????

  10. Task: Plan Using Scenarios

  11. METHODOLOGY INTERLUDE BUT FIRST: WORLDVIEWS (ESPECIALLY PRAGMATISM)

  12. Act

  13. Intent: see how data fits an existing theory, model, or explanation • Ask close-ended questions • Collect and analyze numbers; Statistics • Large samples Quantitative Inquiry

  14. Act • Intent: learn participants’ views • Ask open-ended questions • Collect and analyze words and images; themes • Small Samples Qualitative Inquiry

  15. TYPICAL METHODS Act

  16. VALIDITY Act

  17. MIXED METHODS: • “clarify subtleties, cross-validate findings, and inform efforts to plan, implement, and evaluate strategies” • Qualitative data enhance quantitative findings because they explain the statistical relationships • Qualitative data can inform instrument design for a later quantitative phase • ct Creswell & Clark (2007). Designing and conducting mixed methods research.

  18. MIXED METHODS, 4 DESIGNS: Act

  19. PLAN…ACT… • 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

  20. Break for 10 minutes. When we come back, we’ll … • Collect data • Analyze data • Continue talking to our collaborators

  21. DEMO: • Many Eyes • Tableau Public • Excel • LIWC • Tag Crowd • Word • text.stat

  22. Many Eyes HTTP://WWW-958.IBM.COM/SOFTWARE/DATA/COGNOS/MANYEYES/

  23. Many Eyes

  24. Tableau Public HTTP://WWW.TABLEAUSOFTWARE.COM/PUBLIC

  25. Microsoft Excel

  26. Microsoft Excel

  27. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) HTTP://WWW.LIWC.NET/TRYONLINE.PHP

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