This is a good resource! Thanks for sharing...

Thanks Prof Abdalla, for understanding my question, for your response. I believe I should report all my Pearson r values. But I wait to get responses from education psychologists, stats people etc.

Dear Miranda

Let us first get the terminology correct. What you are doing is experimental research and not action research. In experimental

1. Participants are selected and assigned to groups

Control- Use no treatment (old method) – no mnemonics

Experimental – Use mnemonics

2. Outcomes are measured at the end of the experiment

Conduct pretests and post test for the groups on achievement. Then use statistics to compare the efficacy of mnemonics on student achievement.

Dear Prof N, that was what I did for research on music mnemonics. When it was all done I taught the control group, the mnemonics too.

But I also used facilitated independent learning among them. From beginning of semester, I armed them with cognitive strategies, metacognitive strategies and resource management strategies. When they gave comments on questionnaire, it was from no agreement, a little, agree somewhat, agree and strong agreement. One of the items on questionnaire was:

I have put in effort to becoming an info literate student.

Dear Miranda

I think you have to clearly distinguish the individual effects one at a time. So you are using a Likert scale of 5. You are doing everything correctly. May be you should contact a good Professor on Statistics at UM if not in your Kolej and associate with him/her to help with your analysis of results.

Dear Miranda: I completely agree with Nageswara that the Likert scale is very good option.

Here a good article to review:

http://www.al-huda.net/2012/PA/2014/topic-dane-likert.pdf

Thanks Prof N and Rolando. I will get in touch with some people at my university. Tomorrow I will visit some people there. It's ideal to control 1 thing at a time, but I need 1 whole semester to train my students. A semester to wean them away from their rote learning...

Previously, when I did PhD, my prof said, there's no harm collecting more data than you really need to use. But we can't collect less, because we can't get back again. Thanks.

Dear Prof N and friends, this morning I visited Prof Tan. He told me about Dr. Mahendran, a statistician in Maths Dept. Dr Mahen has said why aren't researchers coming to consult with him. So Prof Tan called him at 2 numbers. But there was no reply. I will call Dr Mahen from college. I'll be back tomorrow. It's difficult to be here, without internet, although it's always good to be at home.

Hi¡ Miranda. you need a control group in similar conditions of original research. comparative topics, time to do the work and, also, try to be very sure on the value of references.

Dear Regina,

Thanks. Do you have resources, papers on self directed learning also? My new semester starts in early June. I will decide on a 'new' method soon.

Dear Miranda

I sent a couple of files to you. Let me know if you need any further assistance with literature.

Dear Miranda

Looks like a good resource for SDL.

http://yssschoolclosure2011.wikispaces.com/Student+Directed+Learning+(What+it+means+for+students%3F)

Thanks Prof N. I want to read papers where empirical research was done.

Use Google Scholar to search for important titles. If you find important ones, then let me know if I Can be of help to get those for you.

Thanks Prof N. I will do that. I disappear from Q and A to do the more important work.

Thank you for this question Dr. Yeoh. SDL is one of the parts of my PhD. Appreciate the file dearest Prof. N.

Dear Dr Fatimah, thanks. Would you want to differentiate between SDL, independent learning and autonomous learning at all?

I just take them to mean that the student learns to take responsibility for learning, and this is process is facilitated by the teacher.

Hi Dr., in my case it will be integrating technology in biology lessons. Eventually, I need to breakdown this definition. I haven't work it out as yet, currently in the data collection stage using video analysis.

Dear Dr Fatimah, Prof N et al.,

I managed to consult the statistician, Dr. Mahendran, at UPM where I was doing my PhD, and where Pardis is attached. He gave good feedback. I must report my reliability and Pearson correlations but I must NOT make any generalizations concerning the population. Thanks for your contributions.

Dear Miranda

That is good. Also since you have taken multiple effects at the same time separating the individual effects is not possible. So next time if you can plan the process with a hypothesis before starting the experiments it will help.

Keep up the good work.

@Nageswara, that would be the only possible approach. It is a good suggestion to my sister @Miranda.

The sequence of working stages in Hypotheses approach is given through 8 steps, use the following link. I know that @Miranda is aware of it, but just for the case!

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~pyo22/students/hypothesis.html

Thanks my dear brother Ljubomir. I get the link...it's always good to get a reminder. I know how many mistakes I can make, if I'm just a bit careless. TQ :)

Here is the poster of our good friend Lijo which got the first prize.

Thanks Prof N. If Lijo is on RG, 4 million can view it. On this thread, only 27 persons see it, What a loss.

That is true. Miranda. At least it is a start. Let us start put it on other threads.

Prof N, please put on my threads. I am at home, and only have mobile internet right now. But I will come back to college, tomorrow afternoon.

The statistician sent me an email to see him at the university, my old iniv.

I am an optimist. I do think that Lijo will reappear at Research Gate!

Yes @Profs N, Ljubomir, we are proud of Lijo :))

I will put the poster on my threads...look out for it, ok?