Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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STYLE SHEET
This research paper is an academic treatment of your lens, as applied to the focus, and reflective of
your reading and engagement.
10-15 pages
Times New Roman 11.5 for normal text, line spacing: 1.15
Cite sources using APA style in the document and in a separate bibliography (not counted in
your 20-page total)
Annotated bibliography of at least 8 substantial research articles (also not counted in your 20-
page total)
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Table of Contents
Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Purpose of the Project, Goal, Intended Impacts .............................................................................. 4
Research Review ............................................................................................................................. 4
Evidence: Data Gathering and Inputs ............................................................................................ 6
Benchmarks and Assessment Criteria............................................................................................. 6
The Deliverable ............................................................................................................................... 7
Sustainability Component ............................................................................................................... 7
Challenges: Expected, Uncovered, Forecasted ............................................................................... 7
Conclusions and Recommendations for Deliverable ...................................................................... 8
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................... 8
Optional Appendix: Survey Questions .......................................................................................... 8
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Abstract
(250 words maximum)
An Abstract is the entire paper in a condensed form, written for those seeking to learn more. An
abstract summarizes, usually in one paragraph of 250 words or less, the major aspects of the entire
paper in a prescribed sequence that includes: 1) the overall purpose of the study and the research
problem(s) you investigated; 2) the basic design of the study; 3) major findings or trends found as a
result of your analysis; and, 4) a brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions.
The abstract allows you to elaborate upon each major aspect of the paper and helps readers decide
whether they want to read the rest of the paper. Therefore, enough key information [e.g., summary
results, observations, trends, etc.] must be included to make the abstract useful to someone who may
want to examine your work.
How do you know when you have enough information in your abstract? A simple rule-of-thumb is to
imagine that you are another researcher doing a similar study. Then ask yourself: if your abstract was
the only part of the paper you could access, would you be happy with the amount of information
presented there? Does it tell the whole story about your study? If the answer is "no" then the abstract
likely needs to be revised.
Research Review
(3 pages)
Examine the independent research on the deliverable/challenge itself; provide more detail about
possible parallel programs—and, if so—how they might fit into the cultural context or meet the
demand of the deliverable. Since you are conducting an external case study (objective analysis) as
well as a project deliverable in a rapidly changing, subjective context, you are going to have to thread
the needle between a scholarly pursuit and a profoundly human, changeable dynamic.
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If you are focusing on the Teacher of the Year program, what steps must be place and how
momentum can inspire other teachers.
If you are focusing on education in the interior, you several dual challenges for the research
and the deliverable—how to identify great teachers in Suriname’s ten districts and a process
by which they might make their excellence known and shared; and how also to feed teachers
in those same districts a set of interesting materials that they might use to teach their peers.
And....all of this within a context of shifting political alliances and, more often than not,
capricious education policy or spotty attention to the interior.
The Deliverable
(2 pages)
In a word, “deliver” it. Show us what you’ve done.
Sustainability Component
(1.5 pages)
In development work, a true success can be measured when the outside actor is no longer needed. In
education initiatives such as this one, a consistent central question arises: As you work on the
deliverable(s) and develop the case around it, keep in mind the importance of building a sustainable
structure that (at its best) can be resilient in the face of change (political, economic). In other words,
how can you bake this positive intervention into a way of life? How can you not only reach the
people who reach the people, but set in motion a structure for identifying and nurturing leaders for
the long run?
Stuff happens. That’s just the nature of work in the field of education. To the best of your ability
(given a limited time frame), identify what challenges you see, obstacles you notice, or deficits to
address before the entity can create a successful project. Sometimes challenges are expected all
along—an employee’s union may complain about excessive work hours; enthusiasm may wane
because teachers and community/government agencies are often tyrannized by the urgent. What
challenges did you or they expect? What new ones arose? What challenges do you and the entity see
ahead? What challenges does the entity not yet see or accept? What’s missing or standing in the
way of success?
Compare theory with reality. Compare the new reality with an emerging theory of change. This is
all the more reason that a Theory of Change is necessary so that you can develop a discipline toward
academic research and provide somewhat of a leave-behind for the setting on which you are
focusing.
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DELIVERABLE: RECOMMENDATIONS
What remains to be done in order for this deliverable to take root and show measurable
impacts?
What challenges should be addressed and opportunities to leverage in developing this
further for greater implementation, sustainability, or scale?
Bibliography
Separate page, not included in page count
Include all sources footnoted and consulted in the document
APA style format