Campus session 2 Module 3 28th October 2014

1. Campus Session 2 Module
3 BAPP WBS3760
28 October 2014

2. Communicating with blogs and SIGs – continuing practice.

3. Three points to get out of the session
An idea about
how to develop
and create the
professional
artefact
An idea about
how to draft the
Critical Review
An idea about
the analysis task
An idea about
the analysis task

4. Where are you now? Evaluate…
You could still be in several places at once now – keep monitoring progress.

5. Know where you are… mapping progress

6. Final Module 3 Assessment – 3 main parts
Part 1: The Critical Review
It is primarily written but can contain visual or audio visual
elements showing the process of investigating a topic
(practitioner research) with analysis that has implications for
your practice.
Part 2: The Professional Artefact
a product or a work in progress that is created - it can be a
document, an event, or an activity - it can be something that
informs others in your community of practice or workplace -
the artefact should emerge from the inquiry
Part 3: The Oral Presentation (more later –
this is submitted after the parts 1 and 2)
an in person/ audio-visual demonstration that shows that you
have progressed in your ability to show knowledge and
understanding that is based on your ‘inquiry’

7. Starting to write your Critical Review
Use the updates that you wrote earlier – and
rehearse the writing by telling someone else
about your work…
Use the format outlined in the handbook to start
the Introduction and Evaluation.
Think about communicating in the ‘reportage’
style – so this is a form of a report written in the
first person “I”

8. Writing with style and purpose – editing
drafts using paragraphs
The Elements of Style (1959) Strunk and White
Chapter II Elementary Principles of Compositions
“Writing to be effective, must
follow closely the thoughts of the
writer, but not necessarily in the
order in which those thoughts
occur.”
Start by writing down a draft – and then continue to edit
this. In a formal writing style you say what you
mean first and then explain - so reshaping a
descriptive narrative to add meaning….

9. Effective Writing- try to edit with purpose to
say what you mean in fewer words…
Strunk and White example on the issue of wordiness (1959, p. 19)
Macbeth was very ambitious. This led him to wish to become king of
Scotland. The witches told him that this wish of his would come true. The
kind of Scotland at this time was Duncan. Encouraged by his wife,
Macbeth murdered Duncan. He was thus enabled to succeed Duncan.
He was thus enabled to succeed Duncan as king, (51 words)
Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth achieved his ambition and realized the
prediction of the witches by murdering Duncan and becoming king of
Scotland in his place, (26 words)

10. Effective Writing Exercise
Reading aloud what has been written is a good way to
understand it. This can be done with your own writing…
Ideas about this do not always come out in an orderly
fashion – but your job is to reorder them (like Strunk and
White suggest) to make sense of the argument.
In you own drafting and editing processes – reordering and
‘shaping’ the text strives to make it more meaningful and
more concise.

11. Effective Writing Exercise
Lazaroff, Elizabeth M (2001) ‘Performance and Motivation in
Dance Education’, Arts Education Policy Review, 103, 2;
pp.23-26.
Motivation is the internal process that initiates, guides,
and perpetuates behavior over time. Motivation is a
crucial issue in education, as in other fields concerned
with mobilizing others to act, because it is the core of
biological, cognitive and social regulation (Ryan and Deci
2000).
This quote is written verbatim from the source, see the
Harvard reference for this source above… but what does it
mean and how can I use this source in my writing?

12. Effective Writing Exercise
When you are looking at literature you are looking for
meaning – so is this saying motivation is fundamental or an
added extra to the process of education? So if I could say in
my writing:
I was interested in developing an understanding of motivation for teaching dance.
Lazaroff says motivation is essential to education and cites Ryan and Deci (2000)
to say that “it is at the core of biological, cognitive and social regulation” (2001, p.
26). I wanted to embed the techniques that might motivate my students into my
dance instruction. Using the dance teacher ‘David’ as an example, Lazaroff
suggested techniques such as “modelling and repetition, the verbal directions
including praise and corrections, music, group learning, and intense physical
activity” were used as examples of good practice (2001, p.25).
Later when I was talking about my own work I could use
Lazaroff to talk about aspects of motivation and/or
technique.

13. Part 1: A Critical Review
These are the headings you will use for the start of writing up your
Critical Review..
• Introduction - relevant to the context of the inquiry and
how it relates to your workplace or community of practice
• Evaluation of the Inquiry Process - practitioner
research tools used (observation, surveys, interviews,
focus groups), the literature review, the ethical
implications and other activities undertaken as a part of
the process (e.g. performances, workshops, trying out
new strategies, etc.)

14. Thinking it through group exercises
• In groups of two – listen to your partner’s accounts of their
Introduction and Evaluation of the Inquiry Process to their Critical
Review
• Write down what your partner is saying – concentrating on the main
points and the aspects of what they say that are significant OR if you
are alone – PRETEND that you are telling someone else what you
are doing… you can also practice this with your adviser (who has had
experience in listening)
Doing this oral exercise will mean that you have started
to draft your critical review through an oral process.

15. Looking Ahead to the next Task
• Week 4 OR 5 OR 6 (this might depend on where you are
in the process!): Send adviser 1-2 paragraphs as a
sample of your inquiry analysis. Formative feedback will
be given on the structure, the quality of the arguments
and the quality of the supporting evidence discussed.
This task is getting everyone into the mindset of being able
to take an ‘emerging’ finding (what you found out from
someone in your practitioner research) and to think
about what it means.

16. Analysis of Findings: possible points to consider
What did the data indicate about your topic, research
question or hypothesis? What did you find out?
The professional inquiry
has been a way to
gather data about a
phenomenon e.g.
an event
a development
a change.
Findings are interesting
because they relate to
how things actually are in
your work environment.
The inquiry tools that you used
should have provided you with
the evidence that you need for
your inquiry. If not… why not?

17. Think of analysis as a triangle of data to develop meaning that
you can tell others using your own point of view
Data – findings from your
inquiry (evidence)
Experience –
relating your
insider-researcher
understanding
Literature –
expertise from
others and from a
collected body of
knowledge in your
field and beyond
(Adesola with Paula added)

19. Analysis of Findings: critical arguments
How do your findings relate
to your literature i.e. earlier
perceptions of the topic or
critical arguments about the
topic/issues/phenomenon?
Use examples from your
literature.
Conclusion of this section -
what
implications/benefits/impact
did your inquiry have to your
professional practice? Your
workplace? Your community
of practice?
What additional knowledge
and understanding do you
have about your professional
practice? Possible further
inquiry topics?
How did your own
professional
activities/events/interventi
ons relate to the findings
from your inquiry?

20. Group Exercise 2 Analysis Review
Tell your partner (or think aloud) an example from your
‘emerging findings’ (what people have told your about
your topic in your practitioner research)
Tell your partner what you think this finding means as a
way of understanding your topic - use your experience
(your interpretation of something that is common or
exceptional) and your literature and your experience to add
more depth of understanding to your analysis.
This finding should relate back to your inquiry question(s) –
what you were trying to find out.

21. Analysing Observations (revisited from Reader 6)
The data is gathered and displayed as descriptions, quotes,
diagrams to show relationships, quantitative charts/displays
to show quantitative data, audio, audio-visual, and
photographic evidence, etc.
Your observations record what has happened sensitively
and appropriately to issues of ethics, permission and
confidentiality.
You need to report an understanding of the context for the
event or meeting that was observed in order to draw
conclusions from the data.

22. Analysing the survey/questionnaire data (revisited)
The framework for data analysis of replies determined in advance.
Coding your questionnaire: There are five steps involved in the
coding process (Survey Monkey can export this data):
1. Develop the coding frame for both pre-coded (closed) and open
questions.
2. Create a codebook and coding instructions.
3. Code the questionnaires.
4. Transfer the values to a computer (as in an Excel spreadsheet).
5. Check and clean the data (you can make simple graphs with the
data).
Interpretation involves identifying significant results, trends, patterns,
similarities and differences and offering an explanation for them. This
can be expressed in the form of numbers or words in your findings.

23. Analysing interviews and focus groups (revisited)
The analysis of data collected from interviews can be
complex. It has been collected within a certain context
and must be analysed with that in mind.
The qualitative researcher can categorise (code) data
that has emerged into themes. Quotes can be selected
because they typify the data (common responses) or there
might be some statements that are significant though only
said once (significant).
The data is organised so that comparisons, contrasts and
insights can be made with the aim of finding the
meaning of the evidence presented.

24. Professional Artefact
Who is your audience?
A good way to start thinking about the professional artefact is
to decide who your professional audience will be? This
decision will help you will know what part of your inquiry you
can develop into an inquiry.
Think about images you will need and permissions…SEND
IDEAS TO ADVISER in an email to see what they think…

25. Examples of a professional artefact from Alumni
http://seraclops.blogspot.co.uk
http://georgiebird123.blogspot.co.uk
http://tmcofliam.blogspot.co.uk
http://corindahall.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/documentary-https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Qq4E1HCcBoE
Look at other examples from our alumni.

26. 1. Q&A from Module 3 BAPP
1. The questions that you ask in the interview survey, should you
comment on each answer? (i.e. the Interview has 14 questions and
the Survey has 24 questions). How many graphs do you put in?
Often there is not space to look at every response, so you may want to
focus on the most significant findings and the ones that most
participants used (more common) – in some cases these might be
the same BUT in the interviews only a few might have brought up
important issues that you want to talk about. You can use your
appendices to show findings that you were unable to spend much
time on in your analysis and refer the reader when needed.
Put in the number of graphs (data) or quotes (data) that relate to your
main points of analysis.

27. 2. Q&A from Module 3 BAPP
2. Does it matter if the information you’ve gathered is rubbish as long
as you comment that it is rubbish?
Difficult one… in this process you try to ask the right interview/survey
etc. questions to gather the data that you need to address your
research questions or hypothesis. However, there might be some
of the questions that did not lead to data that you expected or that
was useful as findings. In this case, you rely on the data that has
been useful and comment within the evaluation and perhaps in the
critical learning sections about the process BUT some unexpected
data is genuine so should be reported as a part of the inquiry.
Think this through – if your inquiry process has not allowed you to
explore the specific issues in your inquiry topic using primary
evidence from other people and literature, you need to discuss this
with your adviser.

28. 3. Q&A from Module 3 BAPP
3. What does the literature review in the Evaluation section cite?
The literature review covers the sources you have used, the people
and theories examined as knowledge and understanding mainly
from written sources BUT also videos, audio tapes, etc.
Investigating your topic by looking at what others have said about it
allows you and the reader to understand the context of your
inquiry.
You can quote and paraphrase from your literature to describe this
context and theorise your findings in your analysis – to compare
the findings to the debates in your field, back up certain findings,
use larger data sets that discuss your indicative findings, give a
historical setting, etc.

29. 4. Q&A from Module 3 BAPP
4. How much do we mention the Professional Artefact in the Critical
Review?
Yes, it is appropriate to mention the Professional Artefact in your
Critical Review, especially in your analysis or critical reflection.
You might also consider an explanatory section to your artefact–
we discussed the addition of a cover or written insert often found in
CDs to show what they are about and give credits.
The final ‘shape’ of the artefact and how it is explained is up to you, but
it would make sense to cover this explanation somewhere in the
work you submit.

30. 5. Q&A from Module 3 BAPP
5. What is the difference between the inquiry and the professional
artefact?
The inquiry is the process you have used for exploring a research
question or hypothesis – the topic area that you have focused on
during the module. Your inquiry includes your practitioner research
and might include a workshop or teaching intervention, but the
process of questioning and exploring the topic would have
informed your practice in order for you to do that activity.
The professional artefact exhibits the knowledge and understanding
from the inquiry findings, like the critical review, but will be some
type of product or ‘work in progress’ you have made for a
professional audience.

31. 6. Q&A from Module 3 BAPP
5. What is the difference between an ‘opinion’ and an ‘interpretation’?
This explanation comes from Paula’s work based learning but be
aware that in different academic cultures (arts and humanities) the
term ‘opinion’ might represent something else.
It might be helpful to think of an opinion as a personally held belief that
could be used in your critical reflection and an interpretation as an
analysis based on evidence – evidence that comes from the data
you have gathered through your practitioner research and inquiry
work (both the literature and the ‘tool’ like interview or survey) – so
in your analysis section you will be interpreting your findings using
critical thinking that relies on judgement e.g. what did you find out
and what did it mean? based on evidence form your inquiry.

32. Three points to get out of the session
Develop the ideas
for your professional
artefact. Choose an
audience to give
whatever you do
focus.
Communicating orally about
your inquiry to start
developing the Introduction
and Evaluation sections of
the Critical Review.
Develop an
understanding of
what the analysis
task is about to send
to your adviser.
Develop an
understanding of
what the analysis
task is about to send
to your adviser.