CAPTURE THE EVIDENCE:
SHOUT IT OUT!
LEE FITZGERALD, LORETO KIRRIBILLI
SCHOOL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, 2012
WHAT HAVE WE CAPTURED?
• The data from two Guided Inquiries - The
Modern and Ancient Historical Investigations
2012
• Guided Inquiry has two purposes: Guiding
students through their inquiry and gathering
data for evidence-based practice.
• The first purpose is the most pressing one.
• Analysis comes later (NOW!) and is secondary.
WHAT DO THE INQUIRIES LOOK
LIKE?
The Guided Inquiries take 5 weeks, 26 lessons.
EBP Action Plan
What are we measuring for impact?
1. Did students achieve deep knowledge of their topic?
2. What did we and they learn about their information process
Research literature documenting evidence for impact :
• Guided Inquiry studies – CISSL; Practitioner studies in Scan and Access,
• Evidence Based Library and Information Practice journal etc.
EBP Action Plan Template
Adapted from Hay/Todd 2012 – EBP Action Plan and Program Templates – SybaSigns School Libraries Making a Difference Seminar – 21 May
Sydney
EBP ACTION PLAN
Types of evidence required to demonstrate impact
Student evidence:
1. Growth from facts, to explanations, to conclusions in
reflection sheets and essay – Q.1 on the SLIM Toolkit.
2. Data from reflection sheets relating to difficulties expressed,
and reflections on learnings.
3. Teacher/student teacher/teacher librarian culminating
conversation.
Program evidence:
• Grades allocated to their essays for content and process.
ROSS’ ACTION PLAN CONTINUED..
Strategies and techniques to collect data:
• Individual filmed interviews
• Whole class films
• Reflection sheets (4)
• Blog responses
• Essays
• Our marking grid – process and content
• Our culminating conversation.
Strategies and techniques to analyse data
• SLIM Toolkit
• Triangulation of data from this with other methods – interviews,
films, culminating conversation.
A MORE STUDENTFRIENDLY
INFORMATION
SEARCH PROCESS.
Kuhltau, C, Maniotes, L and Caspari A. Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School. Libraries Unlimited, 2012.
OUR CULMINATING CONVERSATION:
WHAT WENT WELL?
Teaching team: Teacher/TL/Student teacher agreed on this:
• Five weeks inside the head of each individual student
• Reflection for synthesis of information and interventions
• Dividing up the students between the members of the teaching
team for feedback and conversation with students, then rotating
this close scrutiny.
• Inquiry circle of three students all investigating Atlantis.
• Inquiry conversations one on one.
• Feedback on blog.
WHAT RESULTED IN ACHIEVEMENT OF OUTCOMES/WHAT
DIFFICULTIES DID STUDENTS FACE?
The level to which outcomes were met depended on these:
• ability and engagement
• choice of topic
• good inquiry questions
• moving from broad to specific searching
• Analysing information and extracting the relevant bits
• use of Easybib for notes and bibliography
• creating a well synthesised essay plan
• managing scholarly conventions well – bibliography and
footnotes
• using all supports available to them (reflections, sources,
feedback from teachers)
• use of, and ability to comprehend high level sources
• essay construction and writing skills.
SOME OF OUR STUDENTS
Action plans for
students
Student name:
The team agrees on actionable items for each student of concern.
Kathryn:
Qin Shi Huangdi
Information process
Essay structure
Incomplete sentences
Paragraph breaks
Developing an argument, rather than a narration
Writing and essay structure
Breadth of research
Developing an argument, rather than a narration
Historicity
Grammar
Spelling
Clarity of expression
Essay structure
Essay planning
No areas of improvement!
Sophie:
Battle of Teutoberg
Forest
Caitlan:
Jezebel
Ailish:
Atlantis
Action
Teacher/TL/Literacy
Teacher/TL
Teacher/TL
Teacher/TL
ACTION PLANS?
Action plans
for teaching
team
The team agrees on actionable items for the team. Next
time, we will….
• resist temptation to provide information, and teach
more on how to locate it and how to read dense texts.
- All of us!
• Offer after school workshops for Year 11 going into
Year 12 on searching, notetaking, synthesising, and
essay writing. - TLs
• Do more explicit teaching of how to use Easybib - TLs
• Restrict the inquiry next year to five groups of topics,
and use Inquiry circle techniques recommended by
Kuhlthau et al - T and TL
• Rotate support of groups of students during process of
enquiry.
DATA ANALYSIS ONLY JUST BEGUN!
• Enquiry has just finished, and we are handing back
the essays this week.
• Examples of our data:
• Essay
• Marking
• A reflection sheet
• Eloise reflects!
Olivia’s notes
on Easybib
SHOUTING IT OUT?
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Get analysing with student teacher, using SLIM!
Student input into analysis of their essays.
Write it up.
Present it at Loreto at staff meeting.
Hope to present this at CISSL Research Symposium
on Guided Inquiry, Rutgers University, 2013