Establishing a Research Framework: Interventions to Improve Academic Achievement in Low-Socioeconomic Students
Overview
This paper establishes a research framework for a capstone inquiry examining interventions to positively impact academic achievement among students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The author articulates their ontological position grounded in reflexivity and personal experience, then justifies the methodological approach suited to answering the research question while acknowledging the complexity of socioeconomic factors influencing educational outcomes.
What this coursework covers
- Introduction and research question positioning within EDUC 6013/6123 coursework
- Researcher's philosophical perspective and ontological position with reflexive disclosure
- Analysis of research question strengths and limitations regarding achievement gaps
- Overview of socioeconomic status concept and its relationship to educational outcomes
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Establishing a Research Framework
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Establishing a Research Framework
Introduction
This assignment will build on the research methods identified in EDUC 6013 and EDUC 6123 by applying them to the planned capstone inquiry: What interventions can be implemented to positively impact the academic achievement of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds? In addition to providing an overview of the proposed research question, this essay will analyze the researcher's philosophical perspective (the ontological position), justifying the methodological approach and methods that best meet the intended research outcomes.
My philosophical perspective (ontological position) is that my research position should be informed by reflexivity and that I am charged with the task of being vulnerable and revealing more about my life. I have a personal interest in the research question given that I am a 51-year old heterosexual white woman who, despite growing up in a low-class family, has managed to escape from the status I grew up in and from what society told me should have been. Not only am I a Canadian citizen, but I am also a working and independent upper-middle-class woman with a university education. I have also had my fair share of challenges raising my three adult children as a single mother without any external support. Because I understand what it feels like to constantly prove people wrong and rise above the persistent doubts and challenges, I am interested in reducing the existing achievement gap among marginalized low-income students.