1. In your own field of work and study, suggest an action research study that uses a mixed method design.

2. Suppose a teacher decides to study the impact of technology on the attention behavior of her fifth-grade students.

She makes observations of students for three weeks before

the technology is introduced and then continues her

observations for the next three weeks while students use

the technology. The results suggest that students pay

increased attention when they use technology, so the

teacher decides to use it for the rest of the semester.

a. What should the teacher do to ensure credible results?

b. How can teacher bias be controlled?

c. Is this an example of cyclical research? Why or why

not?