Share Your Action Research Study Action research is a form of inquiry in which a problem is identified and a series of actions are planned as a way of gaining deeper understanding of the range of possible solutions. The purpose of this discussion is to promote reciprocal sharing of your final action research report with others in your community of practice (your peers in this course) who would value the knowledge you have gained through the action research process. In this discussion, you will create a presentation using the software of your choice (e.g., PowerPoint, Google Docs, Present.me, YouTube, Prezi, Jing, SlideRocket, or another program) to present your findings to your school at an after school staff meeting. Include speaker notes if using PowerPoint. If using a program other than PowerPoint, submit a document with speaker notes included for each slide.  There are two parts to this discussion. Part 1: Share the process and results of the action research planned in EDU671 and conducted in EDU675. At a minimum: Describe the purpose of your study by writing a statement that completes the following sentence, “The purpose of this study is to…” (two to three sentences). Post your research question(s) - Include definitions of key technical terms, if necessary. (one to three sentences)Outcomes/Results The “so what?” of your study—Answers to your research questions. (three to four sentences)Assuming you would conduct another cycle of this study, what specific modifications or adjustments would you make, and why? (three to four sentences)Explain why this study is important to the school and the students. ( two to three sentences)Explain why this study is important it is important for teachers and other educational practitioners to become researchers of their own practice. (two to three sentences) Part 2:  Attach a link to your ePortfolio (Pathbrite).In one paragraph, reflect on your experience with the redesign of the Week Three Assignment in terms of challenges you encountered and how you overcame those challenges. Also include how your assessment promotes learning and innovation skills and how it could be used as a tool for ongoing evaluation of student progress. Use the PowerPoint Template as a guide to help create a high quality presentation. Alternate: If you do not have your own completed action research to utilize, you will take a slightly different approach to complete this discussion: Using the Ashford University Library, locate and analyze a peer-reviewed educational action research study. You will follow the same guidelines in Part 1 of the discussion to create a presentation to share in the discussion forum. An added part to your presentation is reference to the article.

Time period: The case study is restricted to the years 2000-2019, so please focus your discussion of events on these years; though more historical events or phenomena may be briefly discussed to motivate or explain what happens later.Democratic roots (1-2 pages):How long has the country been a democracy? In the years before the country began backsliding, how would you describe the state of the democracy? You can use standard indices, e.g. Economist Intelligence Unit, Freedom House, Polity, to establish relative measures of democracy, but also include descriptive evidence of the status of democracy in the country including the quality of elections, the extent of political freedoms, and civic openness and participation.Timeline and international context (1-2 pages):When did the country start to backslide (provide separate descriptions if there are multiple instances of backsliding)? Were there international factors during this time that contributed to the downturn? For how many years was democracy on the decline?Precursors of erosion (2 page min):Are there specific, time-limited events or precursors to democratic erosion?Are there more static features of society that contributed to democratic erosion, e.g. ethnic heterogeneity, partisan polarization, economic inequality? Are there features of local institutions that facilitated the decline, e.g. an especially strong executive branch, weak judicial legitimacy or a non-credible press? We encourage you to use the Theory Matrix in the Lust and Waldner reading (p. 48-64) as a tool to explore the factors leading to backsliding.NB: When you identify determinants of democratic erosion, pay attention to how these factors changed in advance of the democratic backsliding. In other words, if the country has always faced these problems, it is unlikely that these were the cause of sudden changes in democratic institutions.NB: Please do not simply list all the problems facing the country. Be sure here to connect the country’s problems you cite to the erosion of democracy.Symptoms of erosion (2 page min):What does backsliding look like in your country, e.g. how does democratic erosion manifest? If there are multiple periods of erosion in your country’s history, describe all of them and comment on their similarities and differences. Week 4 on the uses and abuses of democratic institutions may be particularly useful here. If you do not think your country qualifies as having experienced democratic erosion, please state that in this section and defend your reasons.Resistance to erosion or the aftermath of the decline (1 page min):Is there resistance to backsliding? If so, where does it come from in society and how successful has it been?If the country is no longer backsliding, did the democracy recover or transition to a non-democratic regime? When did this happen? Describe the recovery or transition.If the democracy is still backsliding, do you predict it will continue to get worse or will start to improve? Why?

Week 1 Identification of a Population in a Selected CommunityDuring this week, you will identify a population at risk in a selected community. This population will be the basis for the Capstone Discussion Forum in Canvas and also the final project/paper for Capstone.A few indicators of a population would be those identified in your Community Assessment as vulnerable populations, or those at risk, for example the homeless, adolescents, pregnant, elderly, and those with associated health problems such as diabetes, STDs, malnutrition, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease, lung disease, etcTo start your search and interest you might look at your community assessment, or look at information in your local public health department websites, the CDC, (CDC Wonder databases and Healthypeople 2020, 2030) and other evidence-based websites that the CDC supports.Address the following points:Briefly describe the selected community and practice setting, the determinants of health, and health problems that are magnified. What population is most at risk and that you have identified. Define the population and particular issues related to health risks and problems.