7. Results, Evidence, Analysis, Discussion and Impact Sections of your dissertation

By now you should be clear about what data you will be collecting and have started to collect some.

The next stages are: -
•    The Evidence  - this is a portrait, display and description of your evidence
•    The Analysis of evidence - this is in the form of a discussion
•    Impact  - this is an account of

•    A. What you have learned

•    B. What difference you have made

You will mainly be using text to describe the data you have collected. Also consider using:

o    Charts

o    Diagrams

This outlines the description (which you should have in the methods section for the “Steps to analysing the data” including:

    Collating

    Immersion

    Coding

    Sorting

    Hypothesis testing

    Pattern identification.

You should evaluate - you need to show weighing up of the research.

    Sources of bias

    Descriptive Validity

    Explanatory Validity

    Reliability of the results

You should also

Weigh up the evidence

Verify the evidence

You need to systematically describe the impact of your scholarship:

•    Your learning: What new perspectives have been revealed to you?

•    Your practice: Changes to what you do

•    The learning experience of pupils: How has what pupils do and/or experienced changed?

•    The learning outcomes of pupils: To what extent have the standards achieved by pupils been affected?

•    The practice of colleagues or of the school.