Country School Research Critique
Qualitative Study Evaluation
Eleanor Vernice Siyon u7a1
Capella University
Quarter & Year: Summer 2012
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E-mail: esiyon@capella.edu
Instructor:Pat Ryan
Qualitative Study Evaluation
The one- teacher country school is largely the past practice of the American educational institution. This one teacher setting was characteristic of the recitation process used by students to “recite” to the teacher what one had learned from their lessons. The teacher characteristically would ask questions of their students during their process to glean the answers and evaluate the progress of their students. Traditionally these classrooms consisted of multi-age, multi-grade level all situated in one classroom with one teacher. This evaluation is about one such educational system in the state of Nebraska. It is an ethnographic study title “ Notes on a Country School Tradition: Recitation as an Individual Strategy” The stated purpose of this study was to view the practices of some of the one-teacher schools and to determine what may be learned from them. This evaluation will proceed by evaluating the validity and effectiveness of this research in its relation to the following categories within the study. The categories are as follows: the problem statement, review of the literature, the purpose statement and central phenomenon, validity of the data collection, validity of data analysis and findings, and the quality of writing and its consistency with the qualitative criteria.
1 Evaluation of the Title
The title of the study “ Notes on a Country School Tradition: Recitation as an Individual Strategy” This title does not reflect the central phenomenon being studied. The central phenomenon is the investigation of recitation in a one-teacher school as a patterned and functional response to the conditions of smallness, and it’s interrelationship to parental and
Eleanor Vernice Siyon u7a1
Capella University
Quarter & Year: Summer 2012
Address (optional):
City, State, Zip (optional):
Phone (optional):
E-mail: esiyon@capella.edu
Instructor:Pat Ryan
Qualitative Study Evaluation
The one- teacher country school is largely the past practice of the American educational institution. This one teacher setting was characteristic of the recitation process used by students to “recite” to the teacher what one had learned from their lessons. The teacher characteristically would ask questions of their students during their process to glean the answers and evaluate the progress of their students. Traditionally these classrooms consisted of multi-age, multi-grade level all situated in one classroom with one teacher. This evaluation is about one such educational system in the state of Nebraska. It is an ethnographic study title “ Notes on a Country School Tradition: Recitation as an Individual Strategy” The stated purpose of this study was to view the practices of some of the one-teacher schools and to determine what may be learned from them. This evaluation will proceed by evaluating the validity and effectiveness of this research in its relation to the following categories within the study. The categories are as follows: the problem statement, review of the literature, the purpose statement and central phenomenon, validity of the data collection, validity of data analysis and findings, and the quality of writing and its consistency with the qualitative criteria.
1 Evaluation of the Title
The title of the study “ Notes on a Country School Tradition: Recitation as an Individual Strategy” This title does not reflect the central phenomenon being studied. The central phenomenon is the investigation of recitation in a one-teacher school as a patterned and functional response to the conditions of smallness, and it’s interrelationship to parental and
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