Project Page Template and Creation Instructions

Creating Instructional Principle and Hypothesis Pages

Each instructional principle page is structured with the following headers:

1. Brief statement of the principle
2. Description of the principle
   1. Operational definition
   2. Examples
3. Experimental support
   1. Laboratory experiment support
   2. In vivo experiment support
   3. Level of support (either low, medium, or high) (See the IES practice guide on "Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning" for definitions of levels of support.)
4. Theoretical rationale (these entries should link to one or more learning processes)
5. Conditions of application
   1. Failed replications (which suggest conditions of application are needed)
6. Caveats, limitations, open issues, or dissenting views
7. Variations (descendants)
8. Generalizations (ascendants)
9. References

If you have a study page, your hypothesis section should make reference to at least one of these instructional principle pages. You should edit your hypothesis section to be sure it points to an instructional principle page. Then you should edit that instructional principle page so that it at least (1) has the structure above (even if all sections aren't filled in -- a template you can copy is provided further below) and (2) points to your study with a brief summary of the results. You should also (3) read the entry carefully and fill in or edit sections so they are consistent with your findings and with relevant theory.

We want to keep the number of principles down, at least at the highest level of generalization, so try to reference the most general instructional principle that is appropriate. In addition to facilitating our goal of greater shared vocabulary and unification, doing so will also make it so you have less editing work to do! By pointing to more general instructional principles, others will be contributing to structuring and filling in that page in addition to you. You may also point to (from your hypothesis section) more specific instructional principle pages relevant to your study.

Be sure that the *Examples* and *Experimental Support* sections of the instructional principle page you point to also points back to your study page.

Please also add references to literature beyond your own work to the *Reference* section of instructional principles pages you edit. You might simply copy these from your study page's reference section and/or papers you have written. By doing so, you can help others (and others can help you) identify relevant research in the field.

Project Page Template

You can copy the following into an instructional principle page you want to edit and then insert existing text into appropriate sections and add text in other sections.

For the wiki project pages, we use the following standard PSLC format

1 Project Name

    * 1.1 Summary Table
    * 1.2 Abstract
    * 1.3 Background & Significance
    * 1.4 Glossary
    * 1.5 Research questions
    * 1.6 Independent Variables
    * 1.7 Dependent Variables
    * 1.8 Hypotheses
    * 1.9 Explanation
    * 1.10 Further Information
          o 1.10.1 Connections
          o 1.10.2 Annotated Bibliography
          o 1.10.3 References
          o 1.10.4 Future Plans




If you have more than one study, you can modify it to a format like the one below.

Project Name
==Background==
===Study One===
          ====Hypothesis====
          ====Independent Variables====
          ====Dependent Variables====
          ====Results====
          ====Explanation====
===Study Two===
          ====Hypothesis====
          ====Independent Variables====
          ====Dependent Variables====
          ====Results====
          ====Explanation====
==Contributions==
==References==
==Future Plans==