1. Title of Your Action Research Project
Authors of the Presentation
with School Affiliations
Background:
Tell the story of how you became interested in your project and why its important to you and your school.
Discussion and Implications:
Tell us what your results mean and how they can or should influence teaching. Do your results have any specific implications for your teaching? For other peoples’ teaching?
Data:
Tell us about what data you collected, how often you collected it, and how you expected your data to help you answer your research question. You may want to include examples of surveys, interview questions, pictures of students participating in the project, etc. off to the side of this slide so other people can see what you did (and to make the poster less boring!).
Figure 1. Here is one of my students working on his inquiry project.
Figure 3. Our inquiry project involved computers.
Figure 2. Here’s what happened when my students worked on their inquiry projects.
Our Research Question(s):
Include your research questions so that the people viewing your poster know what you were studying in your classroom.
Future Projects:
Now that you’ve done this project, what do you see yourself doing in the future?
References:
Give references for papers you cite in the poster.
Figure 4. Here’s one of our students researching for her presentation about astrophysics.
Figure 5. This graph shows that student interest in science increased when we used inquiry lessons in our class.
Results:
Describe the basic results of your study. It will help if you include data, graphs, coding categories, quotations from interviews or log notes off to the side so the people who view your poster can see what you’re talking about (and it also helps to make the poster less boring).
Literature:
Tell us a little bit about what science educators already know about the topic you are studying and how your project adds to what is already known.
John: “Wow. This inquiry lesson was really neat!”
Susie: “I learned a lot during this lesson”
Paul: “I liked coming to class when we were learning through inquiry!”
Figure 6. Some of our favorite quotations from students who participated in the inquiry lessons.
Acknowledgements:
Briefly thank anyone who particularly helped you with your project.
Figure 7. This figure shows the relationship between students’ grades and the percentage of student-centered activities in the classroom.