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Action Research Paper - You must use the Concerns-Based Adoption Model(CBAM).

Change Project Paper

The length of this paper is 16 pages not including cover and references pages and must be thoroughly edited before submission and must conform to the APA Style Manual for writing accuracy. The change project should include the following components:

1. Introduction

a. Statement of the Problem: Overview of the problem or innovation to be implemented by the client organization. Provide a detailed description of the setting, staff, and innovation or change desired by the client (client could be the school, principal, organization, management, parents etc.).

b. Review of Related Literature: The central focus is to examine and evaluate what has been said before on your topic, and establish the relevance of this information to your own research. The minimum number of references is 4.

c. Research Questions/Hypotheses: Research questions are the questions you set out to answer when implementing your Change Plan's changes while hypotheses are tentative statements predicting the relationships between variables. You are to choose research questions OR hypothese for this subsection of your Change Plan.

2. Method
a. Participants: Describe the participants adequately. Detail the participants' major demographic characteristics, such as sex, ethic and/or racial group, level of education, socio-economic status, etc. As a rule, describe the groups as specifically as possible, with particular emphasis on characteristics that may have bearing on the interpretation of results.
b. Data collection: Describe your data collection strategy and methodology. Describe how you gather information for your project. Include your data collection timeline and a description of the research methods you used (interviews, CBAM questionnaire, your own Likert scale questions, one-leggedinterviews, observations, other artifacts). Include the questionnaire you used and who you gave it to as well as the list of interview questions you used.
c. Data analysis: Describe how the collected data are analyzed and report the results of those analyses. The report should be an accurate, unbiased, complete, and insightful analytic treatment of data

3. Discussion
a. Conclusion: Summarize your findings from the data you gathered and describe how they can be applied for the change or innovation.
b. Recommendations: Include your recommendations to your client (plan to make) for how to implement the prospective change or innovation. Be sure to tie your recommendations to the data you collected and analyzed.

4. References & Log of meetings and contacts with client and/or participants. Be sure to include your meeting logs. The log can be written in the form of a reflection journal. The log should include a record of your meetings with your client or team responsible for eventually implementing an innovation or change. Be sure to keep a record of when you distributed and collected your survey (questionnaire) instruments as well as when and who you interviewed.