Instruction for comparative study
Title
Short, clear and accurate to your assignment:
A comparative study of Effect of teacher’s training for student with ADHD in classroom: England, and Louisiana
Introduction
Includes background, rationale and an overview of the structure of your assignment. You might include:
What “practice” (professional issue) are you writing about?
Why is this “practice” (professional interest) significant to you and/or your professional/personal context?
What is your own positionality(grew up as a child with ADHD) in relation to the practice?
What are the contexts you are comparing (eg countries, phases, time periods, pedagogies, etc)?
Why have you chosen these two contexts?
What frameworks, models, benchmarks or other things will you use to compare the two types of practice?
What is your rationale for using these frameworks/models to make the comparison?
What literature, data and documents will you draw on for your comparison?
Comparing the practice in two contexts
To explain, with appropriate criticality, your comparison and what you can find from it. You might include:
What approaches are taken to your chosen practice in the two contexts?
What do key policy, research and literature sources tell you about the practice in the two contexts?
What is your view of the accuracy/reliability/validity/bias of what the literature tells you about the types of practice?
What are the limitations, complexities, contradictions and/or ambiguities in your comparison?
What alternative viewpoints might be drawn from the same information?
Conclusions and implications
To explain the implications of your study. You might consider:
What is your view now of your chosen practice? What evidence leads you to that view?
What lessons could be learned from your comparison?
What recommendations would you offer to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, school leaders, others?