EDU 671 WK6 DB2

INTERVENTION

Marcus Coleman

Ashford University

Overview

The proposed intervention is to determine the differences in terms of effectiveness of live classrooms and virtual learning forums. The two forms of learning have varied impacts on the quality of education and therefore this intervention is concerned about revealing they are different from one another in terms of quality.

Literature review

Past researchers have studied the two forms of learning and have compile articles of their findings (Gauch, 2003). This will be rich resources for the intervention as they will help with creating the hypothesis. Literature review is an important aspect of research; it gives the researcher an insight of what to expect when the actual research is conducted. Researchers are advised to make use of literature review to improve the quality of their findings.

Benefits

The intervention is beneficial to the population because it will reveal results that will be relevant. This intervention is interested in finding the causes of a particular problem. After the cause has been identified, possible solutions can be constructed and implemented to handle the same. The population will also benefit by learning to do thing in the right way. Basically, an intervention must be able to improve the quality of life of the population.

Intervention plan

The prevailing problem is the existence of a notable performance difference between students who learn through virtual platforms and those who are taught by live teachers. The education system should be able to give equal chances to all students irrespective of the modes of learning. The intervention plan therefore seeks look at this problem and how well to solve it. An effective intervention plan must be able to identify the problem as well as the hypothesis and finally the implementation strategy that will be utilized to make sure that relevant measures are taken to address the problem.

With respect to the literature review, it is noted that students who are taught by live teachers perform better in class as well as in the job environment. They are more social as compared to their counterparts who learn through virtual platforms. Regarding this statistics, the hypothesis in this case is to expect better performance from students who attend live classes than those who do not. Despite the fact that research should not biased, the literature review provides the likely results that will be obtained and this is basis of forming the research hypothesis. Basically, the hypothesis is the result that the researcher expects to get (Hoffman, 2003).

It is evident that there is a difference in performance in these two categories of students and this should be eliminated so as to balance the performance. The intervention strategy involves discovering the likely cause of the disparity. It was noted that live classrooms provide more sessions of interpersonal interactions and this improves the social lives of the students. For this reason, the virtual learning platforms need to be improved to make sure the social aspect is taken into consideration. The classes should also not be entirely virtual, it is necessary for there to be cases where students interact with their teachers in order to have the interpersonal relationships that will boost their social life in school and later in their professional lives.

Philosophy

Teaching is all about passing knowledge and information to others so that they can apply it in life. This intervention is concerned about the fact that there are differences in terms of the quality of education offered through live classrooms and virtual learning platforms. With relation to teaching, this philosophy makes it possible for problems to be identified and improvements made to achieve equality.

Social principles

Social principles are among the standards of educators. These principles are concerned about the social interaction between the educator and his students. With relation to this intervention, the social aspect of learned is focused and it is suggested that the teacher and the students have more personal interaction.

Harm

According to the literature that was reviewed, there were some challenges that were cited by previous researchers and they gave another dimension to the intervention. This intervention will also focus on the challenges encountered previously in order to come up with better results; it is an appropriate intervention.

Protection

It is very important to protect participants in any research process and for this reason necessary measures need to be put in place (Creswell, 2008). One of the protection strategies applied in this intervention is the anonymity of participants. Participants do not reveal their true identities; they are protected.

Bias

In order to get unbiased results, the research needs to concentrate more on the actual findings than the hypothesis. The actual results of an experiment are more true and unbiased as opposed to heavy reliance on hypothesis and previous results.

Data collection procedures

Research questions	Data collection tool	Justification for using the tool	Timeframe
What is the students’ preference between live classes and virtual learning platforms?	Survey	This tool makes it possible to collect data from different groups on their opinions	20 minutes
(After indicate their mode of learning) How well do students get along in terms of their social life	Survey	It helps in collecting detailed data more effectively.	25 minutes
What do you think is the effect of your mode of learning to your social behavior in your professional life	Control chart	This control tool will reveal how opinions have changed over time. It will compare the current responses with historical responses on the same question.

References

Creswell, J. (2008). Educational research: Planning, conducting and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Gauch, J. (2003). Scientific methods in practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Hoffman, A. (2003). Research for writers. London: A & C Black Publishers Limited.