In the Lesson 2 assignment, you will outline a potential educational research to

In the Lesson 2 assignment, you will outline a potential educational research topic of interest which is state mandated testing requirements. This may be the topic that you began exploring throughout your previous courses, or it may be something completely different. You may even have already started to think of an actual research problem and research purpose that fall within your topic area. The point of this assignment is to explore qualitative research designs and link your topic (and research problem, if possible) to a potential research design and explain the applicability and relevance of doing so.
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This lesson’s assignment is to develop a white paper that will serve as an educational tool to engage, inform, and convince your audience about the significance and applicability of your chosen research design for a potential study. See the Spotlight on Skills in this lesson for more about writing a white paper.
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Remember, alignment among design and methods is a key consideration in qualitative research. As you will see, the concept of alignment threads its way throughout the research set-up to ensure that all the different components of the study fit together as an “integrated whole.” In this assignment, you will begin to think about alignment, and this concept will be more fully explored in Lesson 5 of this course. However, to be informed while writing this Lesson’s assignment, please skip ahead and review the material presented in the introduction to Lesson 5 to learn what is meant by alignment in qualitative research.
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As you prepare for this lesson’s assignment, also please be sure to integrate feedback from the EDR-8300 course. The feedback that you received in that course was intended for ongoing improvement, so it will be useful now.
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You will accomplish several tasks with this assignment, and your paper should be structured to include four parts:
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Give some thought to an area of interest to you, based on your personal professional experience and the current research literature. Explain why you are interested in this topic and/or research problem, how it relates to your field of practice or career, and how this topic and/or research problem can be explored by way of qualitative design. You may include excerpts from the problem statement you wrote in EDR8300, but the focus of this exercise is not to restate or refine your problem statement. Rather, you will want to provide enough information about your topic to give the reader an understanding of the intended research project. (½ to 1 page).
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Select a design that is aligned with the topic and/or research interest as described above. Explain why this design was selected as appropriate for the topic/research interest and describe in detail how the characteristics of this research design make it appropriate for your intended study. (1 page)
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Critique another research design that you considered and state your argument as to why this other design may not be suitable for your research interest. (1/2 page)
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Provide a closing argument that explains how a potential study, based on the research design you have selected, may inform educational practice and/or theory. (1/2 page)
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Length: at least three pages
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References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly sources, including at least one seminal author on your chosen design.