ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Alphabetize according to the FIRST author of a publication. DO NOT change the order of authors for a particular publication!
FIVE ENTRIES
• Scholarly and/or peer reviewed information
• One entry has to be from a book preferably obtained from WCU. You may cite the entire book or a chapter from a book. You may use the EBRARY function from our library online sources.
• You may use only 1 publication from ERIC. You are not required to use an ERIC document. If it is an ERIC document, it will have an ERIC Document Reproduction Number.
• Articles have to be a MINIMUM of 10 full pages of text.
• No reviews of books are allowed
• I need to approve any information that has
Pictures
No references
No author cited
(These are RED Flags that the article MAY not be scholarly)
APA
You are expected to correctly cite your bibliographies. Use the APA Manual and example provided in class.
FORMAT/LAYOUT OF DOCUMENT
APPEARANCE
Everything is in 12 Font and Times New Roman.
Black ink
Organized and neat
Default margins (1†all around)
Use the hanging indent when needed
Use your insert page break function
Double space sample:
Annotated Bibliography
Topic
Winter XXXX
Your Name
William Carey University
#1
Couse, L., & Chen. D. (2010). A tablet computer for young children? Exploring its viability for early childhood. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 43(1), 75-98.
Summary
Your summary will be the first part. Remember to use your own words. Do not look at your reading when you write this section. If you want to use quotes, wait until after you write the summary, then flavor with quotes. Be sure you include quotation marks and page numbers. Look up in APA manual how to appropriately quote in that style. You cannot have more than 30% of your document quoted.
Reflection
What are your overall thoughts about the reading? This should be brief and not overly critical.
You should make a decision about whether or not you would recommend this reading to others. If you would recommend it, you may want to write to whom you would recommend it.
#2
Stanford, P., & Reeves, S. (2005). Assessment that drives instruction. Council for Exceptional Children, 37, 18-22.
Summary
This particular article is written by two professors from William Carey University. With inclusion being such a large part of education today, teachers are really having to examine others ways of teaching and assessing in their classrooms. So many regular education teachers are stumped when it comes to teaching children with special needs. These authors provide suggestions that may help regular, as well as special, education teachers tweak their educational decisions when working with all children. This is an article that provides argument for using assessment to drive instruction. One point is that it is not uncommon for teachers to test objectives where the particular content may not even have been taught. It is also noted by the authors that tailoring instruction to individuals is necessary to provide support of individual progress for children with special needs (someone who has an Individual Education Program (IEP)). It is now required by law that there is to be documentation for children’s progress (especially those who have an IEP). These authors also provide information and examples for rubrics, T-Charts, and checklists. This information is provided to help teachers understand there are more ways to assess than simply using pencil-paper type traditional tests. There is a wonderful rubric for creative writing that is provided. This is a great example for teachers to use, and teachers can change the format to fit their own needs. A sample
T-chart and checklist concerning cafeteria behavior are provided. Again, teachers can change the formats to fit their own needs. The authors note, “Assessment must be derived from instruction†(p. 22). They also end by writing that, “The assessment process must move to learner-centered methods, because learners need to clearly understand the task and understand how the teacher will assess the task†(p. 22). This article is actually less than four pages of text and would no longer be allowed by the terms of the rubric used for this class for what is necessary for articles to be included it the annotated bibliography, however, there is the very real possibility that I would make an exception for this particular article.
Reflection
This is a very helpful article for anyone in education. It provides useful information and is referenced. It is an easy article to read and provides a great deal of information in a succinct fashion. I have worked with Dr. Pokey Stanford and with Dr. Stacy Reeves. This is a wonderful article they published and I can say that without prejudice even though I know and respect them in the field. I know they are exceptional educators of teachers and prospective teachers. I would certainly recommend this article to anyone involved in education and perhaps to parents as well.
Remember to make sure that it is at least 1 ½ pages long and NO MORE than 2 full pages. You can expand with the last paragraph. I really do want to know what you think of the reading. I also want you to know that this is where you can use first person since it is your opinion and/or critique and recommendation.
#3
Kohn, A. (2006). Abusing research: The study of homework and other examples. Phi Delta Kappan, 88, 8-22.
Summary
Alfie Kohn, the author, at first writes about research and how it is used, misused, and not used at all in education. He provides arguments that education has a way of citing practices in education as having empirical support, when indeed it may not. He also notes that articles are cited supporting a certain idea, and when he has gone directly to that research, he found that it was either noncommittal or committed in a complete opposite direction. He writes that when research has been conducted to support a certain idea and it proves the situation to not be true, it is not uncommon for that research not to be made public. This is a kind of deception that takes place in the realm of education. Under taxonomy of abuses, he has headings such as: excessive reliance, myopic reliance, insufficient reliance, pseudo reliance, and selective reliance. The second part of the article is a critique of research that has been conducted in the question of homework. Some of the information that was quoted by others in the field as supporting homework actually either had no support or showed that homework had an adverse effect on achievement! He writes there is actually no research based information that supports teachers giving homework to students. It is also mentioned in this article that there may be a correlation between the amount of homework and success but that there is no “causal relationship†between the two variables. He also makes mention that the studies that have been conducted often do not distinguish between grades and test scores with what may actually be that is learned by the students. On page 14, there is a chart of the effects of grades, tests scores and significance for younger and older students. It certainly provides support that homework really has no causal effect when it comes to success and provides support that in some situations, detrimental. There are some cute cartoons. One cartoon, “I had someone else do my homework for me. I’m working on my ability to delegate†(p. 16). The author ends this article by driving the point that not only should we be consumers of research, we should be critical consumers of research.
Reflection
It is amazing to me that people will accept what they are told rather than looking for the truth for themselves. It is also amazing to me that people will not actually read the research that someone notes is in support of a particular point of view. People actually do have a way of simply accepting what is told to them without question when they feel it is coming from so called “experts†in the field of question.
It is easy for teachers to want to go with their intuition. Many teachers want to give homework. It is not easy for teachers to accept something different from what they have been taught or different from how they learned because it was probably successful for them. This is a must read for teachers and for anyone in the field of education. Too many teachers simply keep giving homework without knowing the facts.
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