Chapter 3

Your Chapter 3 should include the following areas: Overview Research Design Setting and Participants Researcher Positionality Procedures Data Collection Trustworthiness Summary Document Type/Template The minimum page length for this chapter is 30 pages. Please submit the chapter in the capstone template. This chapter includes your plan for collecting data

Congrats! This chapter is approved. We will come back to it later with fresh eyes to polish, align across chapters, and ensure cohesion as part of your entire capstone. Below are a few final actions for you to complete before moving on. No need to submit to Canvas -- just address and hold on to this chapter until future submission. Make your terminology consistent. If CRP is the primary theoretical framework and sociocultural learning theory is the supporting conceptual framework, use that distinction consistently throughout the chapter rather than alternately calling both primary theoretical frameworks. The content within the Sociocultural Learning Theory section is appropriate, but this section needs a sentence-level edit. Focus on saying each theoretical point once and explaining its direct connection to the study rather than repeatedly stating that the theory is “relevant.” The connection to action research is appropriate for the methodology language in your framework section, but keep this brief. Chapter 2 should establish why the literature supports the study; Chapter 3 will carry the full methodological rationale and procedures. Student Engagement: Your multidimensional treatment of engagement is strong. Revise absolute statements such as claims that cognitive skills are “not taught explicitly” unless the evidence clearly supports that level of certainty. Use cautious scholarly wording such as “may develop through” or “is often associated with.” DEI: Keep this section connected directly to CRT and student engagement. Remove general DEI background that does not help explain teachers’ classroom implementation or students’ engagement. Avoid allowing SEL to become a second major literature strand unless it directly contributes to the research gap. Summary: Revise the final sentence from “the next section of this paper” to “Chapter 3” and ensure the wording consistently reflects CRP as the primary framework and sociocultural learning theory as the supporting framework.