The Research Methods We Used for This Project

Each member working on The Academic Language/literacy inquire project talked to their mentor teachers about using art vocabulary in the classroom, and collected handouts that related to Art vocabulary. We also observed our mentor teachers' interaction with students, and observed students use of academic vocabulary in the art classroom. In addition to our mentor teachers we also interviewed our “teaching methods” teacher Mimi Dojka, as well as using articles from her class. See our resource posting for more information.
In addition to interviews and observations we collected a variety of articles and web pages about vocabulary in the classroom, teaching vocabulary, and art vocabulary.

We used the following internet search engines to help us with our research: Google, Google Scholar, Oncores, Hsu Library data base.

Information from the internet was evaluated for quality by looking at the authors' credentials as well as who published them on the web. We did a comparative analysis of the data that was collected and found patterns that showed up again and again for methods that were affective and those that were not. These methods are those posted in other postings.