A study design process – CS590 Computing Education Research Sp25

Read the following in The Cambridge handbook of computing education research of Chapter 4 A study design process.

Introduction (2 pages)
4.1 Situate: Identify a Research Question (2.5 pages)
4.2 Evaluate: Is It Any Good? (5 pages)
- 4.2.1 Is It Interesting? (1 page)
- 4.2.2 Is It Theoretically Sound? (0.5 pages)
- 4.2.3 Is It Important? (1 page)
- (optional) 4.2.4 Is It Novel? (2 pages)
- (optional, good for showing what goes in a paper introduction) 4.2.5 Prototyping Research Questions (1 page)
4.3 Formulate: Can You Research It? (7.5 pages)
- Introduction (2 pages)
- (First 2 paragraphs, rest is optional) 4.3.1 Is It Feasible? (2 pages)
- 4.3.2 Is It (Sufficiently) Construct- Valid? (0.5 pages)
- 4.3.3 Is It (Sufficiently) Internally Valid? (0.5 pages)
- 4.3.4 Is It (Sufficiently) Externally Valid? (0.5 pages)
- 4.3.5 Is It Ethical? (0.5 pages)
- (First 2 paragraphs, rest is optional) 4.3.6 Pilot to Analysis (1 page)
4.4 Articulate: Is It Coherent? (2 pages) – good for showing full argument flow of a paper
4.5 Execute (1 page)

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