ED/5010 ED5010 ED 5010 UNIT 6 Assignment 1

ED 5010 UNIT 6 Assignment 1

Assignment 1

Literature Review

Overview

For the past couple of units, you have been focusing on the skills of locating, reading, and interpreting scholarly literature. To demonstrate the skills you have developed, for this assignment you will create a literature review addressing how multiculturalism affects curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

As a scholar, you are developing and demonstrating a number of academic skills by completing both parts of this assignment. Creating annotations of articles (Part 1) shows your ability to focus on the main components of an article and to think critically about empirical studies. Creating an integrated discussion of the literature that you read (Part 2) shows that you are able to think in a "big picture" way; synthesizing what you read into main ideas in order to draw conclusions and make recommendations demonstrates higher-order thinking skills. You will apply such skills as a master's-level educator.

Assignment Instructions

1. Locate 4–5 articles, at least 3 of which have not been provided as readings in this course, on the topic of multiculturalism and how cultural issues impact curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Be sure to include both empirical articles and other types of articles about which you learned in the Unit 5 studies. Use current articles—those that have been published within the last five years.
2. Complete Part 1: Draft an annotation for each article. Annotations are short summaries that encompass the main information from the article. For empirical articles, you should include the purpose of the study, data collection and analysis details, and the findings. Then, identify any limitations of the study. For other types of articles, include the author's main premises: describe the main ideas that the author discussed.
3. Complete Part 2: Provide a 2–3 page summary in which you synthesize the research. This should be an integrated discussion of the literature you read; it should not read like a list of article summaries. When you synthesize the literature you read, you combine the different articles into a whole—an integrated discussion of the literature, not a list of article summaries. Usually, the articles you select on a topic can cluster around a theme. (In this case, the theme might be one particular issue related to multicultural issues related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.) Link the article summaries together in a connected way.

In writing a synthesized summary:

• DO: Identify the theme/issue and discuss it, using citations from the articles. In your discussion, draw overall conclusions based on the literature you read, make recommendations for teaching practice, and connect the practice in your own setting to the research.
• DO NOT: Write a list of the main points of the articles as your summary. It should NOT read: this author said…this author said…this author said.

Combine both parts of the assignment into one Word document and submit that document in the assignment area.

Submission Requirements

• Parts 1 and 2 should be combined into one Word document.
• Written communication:Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting:Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
• Length:2–3 double-spaced, typed pages.
• Font and font size:Times New Roman, 12 point.