Project Aims: Describe how the factors are malleable and under the control of the education system, the relationships you expect them to have with specific student education outcomes, and any mediators or moderators you will be studying. Rationale: Include your theory for and evidence that the malleable factors may be associated with beneficial student education outcomes or that the mediators and moderators may influence such an association. Practical Importance: Discuss how the results will go beyond what is already known and how the results will be important both to the field of education research and to education practice and education stakeholders (e.g., practitioners and policymakers). If you are studying an existing intervention (or a major component of an intervention), discuss how widely the intervention is used and why an Exploration study, in contrast to an Efficacy/Replication evaluation, will have practical importance. Future Work: Discuss how the results of this work will inform the future development of an intervention or assessment or the future decision to evaluate an intervention. Research Plan The purpose of this section is to describe the methodology you will use to – study these particular malleable factors (and mediators or moderators, if applicable) and their potential association with better student education outcomes. Include a description of your research design, sample, measures, and data analysis procedures. A variety of methodological approaches are appropriate under the Exploration goal including, but not limited to, the following: (1) primary data collection and analyses, (2) secondary data analyses, (3) meta-analyses that go beyond a simple identification of the mean effect of interventions (Shadish, 1996), or (4) some combination of these three approaches. Requirements: In order to be responsive and sent forward for peer review, applications under the Exploration goal must include a Research Plan section that provides a description of the: Sample Setting Measures Research design Data analysis procedures Recommendations for a Strong Application: In order to address the above requirements, the Institute recommends that you include the following in your Research Plan section to strengthen the methodological rigor of the proposed exploratory work. Research Design: Describe your research design with enough detail to show how it is appropriate for addressing your research aims.
Project Aims: Describe how the factors are malleable and under the control of the education system, the relationships you expect them to have with specific student education outcomes, and any mediators or moderators you will be studying. Rationale: Include your theory for and evidence that the malleable factors may be associated with beneficial student education outcomes or that the mediators and moderators may influence such an association. Practical Importance: Discuss how the results will go beyond what is already known and how the results will be important both to the field of education research and to education practice and education stakeholders (e.g., practitioners and policymakers). If you are studying an existing intervention (or a major component of an intervention), discuss how widely the intervention is used and why an Exploration study, in contrast to an Efficacy/Replication evaluation, will have practical importance. Future Work: Discuss how the results of this work will inform the future development of an intervention or assessment or the future decision to evaluate an intervention. Research Plan – The purpose of this section is to describe the methodology you will use to study these particular malleable factors (and mediators or moderators, if applicable) and their potential association with better student education outcomes. Include a description of your research design, sample, measures, and data analysis procedures. A variety of methodological approaches are appropriate under the Exploration goal including, but not limited to, the following: (1) primary data collection and analyses, (2) secondary data analyses, (3) meta-analyses that go beyond a simple identification of the mean effect of interventions (Shadish, 1996), or (4) some combination of these three approaches. Requirements: In order to be responsive and sent forward for peer review, applications under the Exploration goal must include a Research Plan section that provides a description of the: Sample Setting Measures Research design Data analysis procedures Recommendations for a Strong Application: In order to address the above requirements, the Institute recommends that you include the following in your Research Plan section to strengthen the methodological rigor of the proposed exploratory work. Research Design: Describe your research design with enough detail to show how it is appropriate for addressing your research aims.