Formulating a research plan

4.  Formulate a research plan that includes:

Statement of purpose (what you hope to show/discover)

 

* Purpose to show a connection in regards to teachers unconsciously being bias against students. How has it effected their students? Is their perhaps a domino effect with the student developing a new bias towards a certain type of teacher? I would like to bring awareness to this topic by listening to stories and analyzing the data to see if their is a connection.

Detailed statement of your research question

 

* 1. Describe the students in your class.
  2. Is there a large group of a particular ethnicity in your class?
  3. Do you have more male than female students? Who do you seem to get along with better.
  4. Can you recall any particular stories about experiences you've had with your students?
  5. How do you interact with your students?

  6. What background do you come from?

  7. How was your upbringing and how were your parents raised?

List of the information you need to gather

 

* Need to gather lots of personal stories from past and present to distinguish a connection and to see if there is a reason for this bias? Or is it unconscious like most?

A preliminary list of sources

 

* I'll be interviewing one teacher and one student.

Ask the teacher what kind of comments do they make on their students papers? What does the student I'm interviewing think about the comments they've received from teachers on papers? I'll be conducting a chat interview where I will analyze the data from.