Childhood Surveys and Results

Step 6: Submit a Childhood Results (4.b) paper
Write a 1000 word summary and analysis of the most interesting results of your group’s surveys with children on their conceptions about race, and how race impacts their lives and identities. Organize your paper around three key insights that arise out of the data. Be sure to include a discussion on method and reference to ideas from three course sources that we read in weeks 2-8. Conclude your paper with a reflection on your positionality and method, and make suggestions for future research.
The paper should be organized with the following sections:
Introduction (250 words): present the three insights you will be highlighting and cite course literature to frame the results and analysis that follows. This is a clear presentation of your argument and (three) subpoints, situated within the literature on race. Remember to use APA style for your in-text citations.
As you used the literature to design your survey, so you should use the literature to motivate the development of your argument. Start by considering what is most interesting about your data, then how it might relate to the readings. Try to say something novel, or intend to explain some aspects of the findings that seem important. You might here explain why the findings are original or significant.
Method (150 words): explain your group’s method for developing survey questions and administering the survey, including a summary of the sample population of research participants.
For the overview of method design and implementation, go beyond the obvious, offering specific examples of your process once you took in the assignment instructions and then made the project your own by sharing your ideas with each other and collaborating to build the final survey. Be sure to also discuss how you found your participants, how you presented the research project, and when and where you administered the surveys.
For the population summary, you are explaining who makes up the sample. Do not summarize each participant in turn, or every aspect of each participant; instead offer a general portrait and a range for the participants.
For example: “The sample size included 4 boys and 11 girls, ranging from age 8-12 years old. 11 children identified as visible minorities (Latinx, Black, and East Asian) while 2 identified as white and 2 more did not identify their ethnicity, race, or cultural origin.” It will be important to stay true to the terms children used for themselves (it means something different to state “East Asian” versus Japanese) as well as to be critical of the classification systems that might emerge here.
Topic exploration (500 words): this will be the main body of your paper. Unpack the three subpoints of your argument by presenting evidence from your group’s surveys. You can draw from your own evidence as well as your classmates’ evidence. You should not share all of the data in this paper, or the most conventional data; instead write about a subset of data that is interesting and relevant to your argument. You may also want to cite literature in this section to help you consider the meaning of your results and the direction of your analysis. I suggest starting with Kromidas (2016), Quintana et al (2006), and Winant (2000), but you might cite any literature you find useful.

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