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Helping student to use primary research.

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Helping student to use primary research.

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Summary:
Primary research involves collecting data about a given subject directly from the real world. This section includes information on what primary research is, how to get started, ethics involved with primary research and different types of research you can do. It includes details about interviews, surveys, observations, and analyses.

Primary research is any type of research that you collect yourself. Examples include surveys, interviews, observations, and ethnographic research. A good researcher knows how to use both primary and secondary sources in their writing and to integrate them in a cohesive fashion.

Conducting primary research is a useful skill to acquire as it can greatly supplement your research in secondary sources, such as journals, magazines, or books. You can also use it as the focus of your writing project. Primary research is an excellent skill to learn as it can be useful in a variety of settings including business, personal, and academic.

But I'm not an expert!

With some careful planning, primary research can be done by anyone, even students new to writing at the university level. The information provided on this page will help you get started.

What types of projects or activities benefit from primary research?

When you are working on a local problem that may not have been addressed before and little research is there to back it up.

Example: You are conducting research on a proposed smoking ban in Lafayette, IN. Little information has been published about the topic other than a few editorials and letters to the editor in the local paper. You can conduct primary research in the form of surveying individuals in the surrounding community and local decision makers to gain more information.

When you are working on writing about a specific group of people or a specific person.

Example: If you are writing about the activities of the Purdue Football team one of the best ways to learn about the team is to go talk to them and observe their behavior.

When you are working on a topic that is relatively new or original and few publications exist on the subject.

For example, if you wanted to write on the connection between the Purdue University Glee Club performance locations and estimated attendance of events, you would have to determine this yourself through primary research methods.

You can also use primary research to confirm or dispute national results with local trends.

For example, if you are writing about people's opinions on Social Security reform, you could conduct a local survey and see how your local results compare to a nationwide survey conducted by the New York Times.

What types of primary research can be done?

Many types of primary research exist. This guide is designed to provide you with an overview of primary research that is often done in writing classes.

Interviews: Interviews are one-on-one or small group question and answer sessions. Interviews will provide a lot of information from a small number of people and are useful when you want to get an expert or knowledgeable opinion on a subject.

Surveys: Surveys are a form of questioning that is more rigid than interviews and that involve larger groups of people. Surveys will provide a limited amount of information from a large group of people and are useful when you want to learn what a larger population thinks.

Observations: Observations involve taking organized notes about occurrences in the world. Observations provide you insight about specific people, events, or locales and are useful when you want to learn more about an event without the biased viewpoint of an interview.

Analysis: Analysis involves collecting data and organizing it in some fashion based on criteria you develop. They are useful when you want to find some trend or pattern. A type of analysis would be to record commercials on three major television networks and analyze gender roles.

Where do I start?

Consider the following questions when beginning to think about conducting primary research:

What do I want to discover?

How do I plan on discovering it? (This is called your research methods or methodology)

Who am I going to talk to/observe/survey? (These people are called your subjects or participants)

How am I going to be able to gain access to these groups or individuals?

What are my biases about this topic?

How can I make sure my biases are not reflected in my research methods?

What do I expect to discover?

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Comparative Study

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What does IBIS look like?

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Module 4 Activity 4
Design your course for two years, one for the SL and one for the HL students.

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Module 4 Activity 4.
Find dates within this document for the Map of the Foundation

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TOK Bell ringers or sponge activities to start your class- first 5 minutes 

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TOK Bell ringers or sponge activities to start your class- first 5 minutes 

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This was created by Valerie R from another class I taught, she allows me to share. You will love it.......

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TOK powerpoint slides for bell ringers daily.... Valerie R.

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Sample TOK Lesson about judging art from the Museum of Bad Art, Boston!

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Sample TOK Lesson about judging art from the Museum of Bad Art, Boston!

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Our two text books, both are great.

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Give this site to your students to find ideas, inspiration and help compiling the Comparative Study. (We talked about this on the BBB)

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Artist names for the Comparative Study.  (Kirsten we discussed this on the BBB)

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Artist names for the Comparative Study.  (Kirsten we discussed this on the BBB)

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to help students research

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Use one of these for each student. Record your comments of 6 discussions with your students (3 PP and 3 EX) You may have as many discussions as you like but document just 3, sign and you are authorizing their work to be theirs.

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6VACAF coursework authentication form--New for 2017

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A lesson on how the exhibition will be viewed.

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A lesson on how the exhibition will be viewed.

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Neha and Kirsten here is the pdf. we discussed on the BBB. IT is a documentation for the PP to show how the audience will view the work.

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EXhibition Prototype with images for teachers

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answers for the EX sample

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HL exhibition sample E commentary May 2016 (category 1)-1

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Answers for the CS Sample

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Comparative study HL sample B commentary May 2016

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Answers for the PP sample

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HL process portfolio sample B commentary May 2016

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Use this to calculate your PG scores, then use the first page of the Subject Report we reviewed in the Coffee Corner to get the 1-7.

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Use this lesson idea for your students.
Download it and give to students to get them started on Comparative Studies.

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Sample of a page from the Visual Arts Journal (sketchbook) showing rigorous hand drawn work, ideas, using the space wisely within the book.

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Sample of a page from the Visual Arts Journal (sketchbook) showing rigorous hand drawn work, ideas, using the space wisely within the book.

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Sample of a page from the Visual Arts Journal (sketchbook) showing process- step-by-step information.

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Sample of a page from the Visual Arts Journal (sketchbook) showing process- step-by-step information.

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Comparative Study: Frida Kahlo & Cindy Sherman exploring identity

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Comparative Study: Frida Kahlo & Cindy Sherman exploring identity

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 Comparative study (SL) (brief example) 

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(Re)Telling Canadian History; A Comparative Study 🇨🇦 Part 3

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(Re)Telling Canadian History; A Comparative Study 🇨🇦 Part 2

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(Re)Telling Canadian History; A Comparative Study 🇨🇦 Part 1

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comparative study Mei Xuan Li

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Week 2- Module 2 Post your responses in the Coffee Corner 

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Week 2- Module 2 Post your responses in the Coffee Corner 

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This is the Visual Arts Subject Report May 2019. Download, read and report your findings in the Coffee Corner on my post.

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Comparative study padlet wall 1. Read through the comparative study information in the Visual Arts guide. 2. Select two artworks from different times and cultures. 3. Either visually or in writing (or both) identify some similarities and some differences. 4. If possible indicate on the artworks (annotate) the points you are making. 5. This could take the form of a flow chart, a diagram, an illustration or a mind map. 6. If it is not an electronic file (that is, if it has been written by hand on a piece of paper) either scan it or photograph it to turn it into a digital file. 7. Upload to the Comparative study padlet wall. Tip: Please make sure you have signed in to Padlet, so that your name appears next to your answers/posts.

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Should you need a copy of the VA Guide, here it is.