2 Part Education Paper

Directions:

Because the literature review is a major writing project for this course, you will find, read, and make notes on two or three sources in Units 1, 2, and 3. You will submit these brief annotated bibliographies as Microsoft® Word® documents in each of those units. Each of these small weekly deliverables is worth 30 points.

You can find an annotated bibliography example in the Unit 1 Assignment page.

You can locate these sources by doing keyword and author searches in the ERIC, Academic Search Premier, or Professional Development Collection databases in the Library, or by identifying sources from bibliographies and reference lists at the end of relevant articles or other literature reviews and then searching for these sources in the Library.

Note:  Be sure to include articles that address both instruction and assessment as they relate to your chosen topic.

You can find information on how to use the Library in the Unit 1 Reading page.

By Unit 4, you will prepare a summary of the references you wish to include in your Literature Review using the Summary of Reference Chart document in Doc resources. In the chart, you will include a full APA-style citation of the article, identify the article as theory or research*, link it to a subtopic**, and summarize the findings in one concise paragraph. At least 10 references are required for your literature review Assignment. Therefore, you will need to summarize at least 10 articles for this Assignment. However, you may want to summarize more than 10 articles in case you have some that are discarded and not included in the literature review.

*Theoretical Article or Research Article — A research article discusses and explains a specific research study conducted by the authors. Other research will be cited by the authors to support the study. A theoretical article is not a research study. There is no action by the authors. Instead, it will explain a theory or topic citing various research studies as support. This type of article may be nothing more than a literature review, which is similar to your literature review Assignment.