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Curriculum Change Plan: Part 1 - Research Matrix
Kelly-Ann Riddell
School of Education, Liberty University
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Research Matrix
Curriculum Change Plan Proposed Topic: Plan to change curriculum for the 5th grade in social studies.
| 1. Title | Elementary ELA/Social Studies Integration: Challenges and Limitation |
| Author(s) | Tina L. Heafner |
| Date of Publication | 30 January 2018 |
| Topic | This research have focused on how instructors teach social studies in educational institutional despite inadequate resources and “hierarchical subject area expectation." This group suggested there should be an addition of 45 minutes for the instruction time. |
| Theories | Curricular integration and instruction |
| Research Question | How integration influenced the mode of teaching social studies? |
| Methodology | Some of the methods used in the research were observation, interview, formative and summative assessment. Also, the researcher analyzed data for grades k-5. |
| Results | The result showed that there had been an integration model of ELA and social studies, which were resulted in misunderstanding. The researcher stated that the result of social studies was different from what was expected (Heafner, 2018) |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | Social studies should be taught separately in order to achieve the best outcome. |
| 2. Title | “We want to learn.” Middle school Latino/ s student discusses social studies curriculum and pedagogy |
| Author(s) | Christopher L. Busey and William B. Russell III |
| Date of Publication | 24 March 2016 |
| Topic | Examines Latino’s student perception who are at the middle school social studies |
| Theories | This research has focused on development theory in adolescent. The author holds a strong value on culturally responsive teaching and pedagogy that the teacher has to examine students' backgrounds. |
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| Methodology | The research is conducted on the basis of qualitative interviews as well as narrative methodology. This helps in determining student’s perception as well as perception (Busey & Russell, 2016) |
| Results | The result obtained are different, but they have some common themes; that is, lack of cultural diversity, banking pedagogy and the essence of current and global perception |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | I will use this research can be used to adopt a diverse cultural curriculum. |
| 3. Title | “All Teaching Should Be Integration”: Social Studies and Literacy Integration in Preservice Teacher Education |
| Author(s) | Rena Shifflet & Carolyn S. Hunt |
| Date of Publication | 20 June 2019 |
| Topic | The author states that there are inadequate social studies curriculum in elementary schools. The aim of this article is to provide research support social studies and integration of literacy within the curriculum of the elementary classroom (Rena & Carolyn, 2019) |
| Theories | Integration and cross-curricular instruction are theories that focused on the entire research. |
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| Methodology | Desirable integration and undesirable integration |
| Results | The research portrayed effective integration of social studies and literacy, which requires a deep understanding of the limitation of understanding. The research also demonstrates the essence of planning on the educator's part to enable the student to show the best outcomes. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research can be used to show the essence of planning so that I will be able to be successful in integrating social studies. |
| 4. Title | The Embodied Social Studies Classroom- Repositioning the Body in the Social Sciences in School |
| Author(s) | Louise Sund, Mikael Quennerstedt, Marie Ohman |
| Date of Publication | February 2019 |
| Topic | This study focuses on how teachers and students acquires some functions in both physically and mentally in social studies. |
| Theories | The liminality of pedagogical relationship and John Dewey's transaction view of emptied rationality |
| Research Question | What does the body do in terms of functional coordination |
| Methodology | Data analysis as well as collection |
| Results | There are embodied engagement that the researcher has identified that describes how students' physical body is related social studies. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | I will use these instructions for professional development, thus enabling the adoption of a new social studies curriculum. |
| 5. Title | Social Studies, Social Competence, and Citizenship in Early Childhood Education: Developmental Principles Guide Appropriate Practice |
| Author(s) | Kristen M. Kemple |
| Date of Publication | 27 June 2016 |
| Topic | This article focuses on how students can be reached through social studies education in Kindergarten age group as well as Pre-Kindergarten. |
| Theories | Social competence, social and emotional understanding, and child development |
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| Methodology | Integration and data collection |
| Results | Social studies instructions are very important in childhood development because it enables in connection with other subjects. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research is the foundation in order to begin the access of civic information for young children. |
| 6. Title | The effective social constructivist approach to learning for the social studies classroom |
| Author(s) | Rajendra K. Shah |
| Date of Publication | 2018 December |
| Topic | This study determines other methods that can be used to teach social studies. |
| Theories | Teaching models, constructivism and social-cultural approach |
| Research Question | What are the alternatives models of learning and teaching |
| Methodology | Qualitative method for descriptive research and questionnaire |
| Results | The results obtained from the research show that the use of constructivists as a method of teaching social studies plays an important role in sustaining learner’s culture. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | I can use this research shape as well as enduring career development once the social studies curriculum has been adopted. |
| 7. Title | Improving Access to Elementary School Social Studies Instruction: Strategies to Support Students with Learning Disabilities |
| Author(s) | Stephen Ciullo |
| Date of Publication | December 2015 |
| Topic | The aim of this research is to discusses how social studies instructions are important in education institutions |
| Theories | Instruction and curricular integration |
| Research Question | How can special education teacher access social studies? |
| Methodology | The researcher used the methods such as comprehension strategy instruction, collaboration, and trial testing. |
| Results | There are some two main option that are provided under the result of this research’ that is providing opportunities for special education teachers and strategies. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research will help to determine the requirement needed for social studies. |
| 8. Title | Teaching Social Studies to Upper Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities: Graphic Organizers and Explicit Instruction |
| Author(s) | Stephen Ciullo, Terry Flacomata, and Sharon Vaughn |
| Date of Publication | 2016 |
| Topic | This article focuses on the investigation of cases of learners with disability in grade four and five. |
| Theories | Collaborative assignments, graphic organizers and technology-based practices can be used to improve acquisition of the content. |
| Research Question | How do student perceive the efficacy of using a graphic organizer |
| Methodology | Some of the methods used include pre or post-test, and filling questionnaire as a method of collecting data. |
| Results | The results showed that after comparing cases of student who have learning disability, the result showed equivalent performance for both groups of students. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research can be used to determine what is needed for social studies curriculum by utilizing the available options. |
| 9. Title | Social studies curriculum integration in elementary classrooms: A case study on a Pennsylvania Rural School |
| Author(s) | Julie Ollila and Marisa Macy |
| Date of Publication | February 2019 |
| Topic | This article focuses on how No Child Left Behind has help students to access education in the United States. |
| Theories | Integrated curriculum theory |
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| Methodology | Interviews, data collection, and data analysis |
| Results | The result of this research shows that when a focused group understands the instructions for social studies, there will be high chances to improve the results for the students understanding the concept and learning objectives. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | I will use this research to identify curriculum that has a lesson that is being taught concisely. |
| 10. Title | Teaching in a play-based curriculum: Theory, practice, and evidence of developmental education for young children |
| Author(s) | Bert Van Oers and Debbie Duijkers |
| Date of Publication | 24 February 2012 |
| Topic | This research is conducted aiming to enable young student to develop vocabularies on their own. |
| Theories | Leont’ev’s activity theory |
| Research Question | What are the outcomes of the Developmental Education approach? |
| Methodology | Experimental analysis |
| Results | Learners who took part in play-based curriculum obtained higher grades. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research can be used to improve student’s grade. |
| 11. Title | A study of state social studies coordinators ׳ views of the Common Core |
| Author(s) | Kathy Swan, John Lee and S.G. Grant |
| Date of Publication | September 2016 |
| Topic | The researcher focused on the perspective of different coordinators of social studies from different states and how they have an effect on ELA. |
| Theories | ELA has various impacts and the researcher can use analytical process to determine those impacts. |
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| Methodology | Quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection |
| Results | State coordinators can be categorized in four different groups, that is, those who support CC-ELA, optimistic, pessimistic of CC-ELA, and those who have positive impacts on CC-ELA. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | English language and common core studies are closely related, thus they can be used in social studies. |
| 12. Title | Descriptive feedback: student voice in K-5 classrooms |
| Author(s) | Carol Rodgers |
| Date of Publication | March 2018 |
| Topic | This article focused on the critical dialogue of nature that is between learners and teachers about their experiences. |
| Theories | Descriptive feedback theory has focused on this study |
| Research Question | What is the influence of descriptive feedback on instructional dynamics? |
| Methodology | The researcher in this study used orientation as well as training of descriptive feedback. |
| Results | Teachers in educational institutional and those who took part in the study accepted descriptive feedback. These instructions also enabled students to memorize what they learned. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research can be used to determine individual’s careers after new social studies curriculums have been adopted. |
| 13. Title | A dilemma in educational leadership: maverick social studies teachers versus curriculum outcomes |
| Author(s) | Gregory R.L. Hadley |
| Date of Publication | 22 November 2017 |
| Topic | This article aims on how school guidelines can impact instructions and pedagogy that are used to teach social studies. |
| Theories | Neoliberal principles |
| Research Question | What are the curriculum integrity that are being used in colleges? |
| Methodology | Qualitative data collection method and interview |
| Results | Most of the results were obtained through the interview, and they portrayed that the social curriculum studies have been updated for the last 15 years. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This research is vital because it guides teachers when teaching social studies. |
| 14. Title | Enhancing Information Literacy for Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Case Study from the United States |
| Author(s) | Margie Ruppel & Sara W. Fry |
| Date of Publication | September 2016 |
| Topic | This research was conducted in order to determine the effects of one-credit information |
| Theories | The research is based on pedagogical knowledge. |
| Research Question | How teachers’ information is affected by one-credit course? |
| Methodology | The researcher used control group as a method of gathering information and qualitative data collection methods were used to. |
| Results | After subjecting one group to 15 hours of instruction and another group was not subjected, the result showed that both groups collaborated, thus leading to the development of both groups. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This can encourage teachers to progress in their careers in order to ensure that they are prepared adequately. |
| 15. Title | THE GOALS AND CHALLENGES OF DOCTORAL STUDENT ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES METHODS INSTRUCTORS |
| Author(s) | Stephanie Schroeder and Elizabeth Washington |
| Date of Publication | 2019 |
| Topic | The main goal of this study is to determine the method that should be used in teaching social studies. |
| Theories | A personal goal, course goal, and challenges |
| Research Question | What are the challenges as well as the goals of doctoral students teacher |
| Methodology | Qualitative method of collecting data, interview, observation, and analysis of documents |
| Results | This research has a limited case study pool; the results that were reflecting were for the statement made by those who were involved in the study. |
| Explain the application to your curriculum change plan. | This article can be used as guidance for identifying quality curriculum for adoption and professional planning. |
References
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