Elevated and Empowered Education:

Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations

Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Education Project Impact Measurement/Research Protocol Template

Title of your education
project/ research
Section Prompts Your description
Research purpose Why are you doing this?
What gap in the research does
this fill?
Is there any previous research
evidence?
What do you intend to measure?

Measure(s) What quantitative

measurement(s) will you use?
Here you are being clear about
your dependent variable

Research aim(s) One specific aim for each This research has <number> aims:
different measure 1. To find out whether…

2. To find out whether. . .

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Research design Name your independent
variable, decide on the number
of conditions (levels of your IV
and design)
Hypothesis(es) State the null and experimental
hypothesis clearly in the present
tense; and whether these are
one or two tailed. You need a
different null and experimental
hypothesis for each
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Adapt the models below, as appropriate
A between-subject/matched-pair design will be used with a post test-only/pre- and post-test. The
independent variable <name> will be defined operationally by creating <number> conditions:
IV Level I – Control condition
IV Level II – Active control <name>
IV Level III – Experimental condition <name>
A within-subject design will be used with a post-test only/pre-and post-test. The independent variable
<name> will be operationally defined by creating three counterbalanced conditions:
IV Level I – Control condition
IV Level II – Active control <name>
IV Level III – Experimental condition <name>
A quasi-experimental design will be used in which both groups will be exposed to the same
treatment. The independent variable <e.g. gender> will be assessed using a post test-only/pre- and
post-test.
IV Level I – Boys
IV Level II – Girls
Sample
Null hypothesis
 Three lessons of group work do not improve maths attainment in year 5 column addition lessons
(one-tailed)
Elevated and Empowered Education:
Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

measurement
Experimental hypothesis
 Three lessons of group work improve maths attainment in year 5 column addition lessons (one-
tailed)

Null hypothesis


Experimental hypothesis


Methods Who will be your participants, Participants, sample size and randomisation
how many of them will there be
and how will you randomise
(if you are going to)?
What will happen to the Procedures
participants and teachers
involved? Also describe the
intervention being trialled

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Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Learner-Centered Education Innovations
Designed and facilitated by: Francis Jim Tuscano

Name the tests/measures you Materials (and apparatus)

will apply, the materials you
will use and the classroom
layout/resources