Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Action Research Plan

Action Planning Template
Goal: What are the effects of changing the curriculum for our Eagle Academy credit recovery program to new, web-based software? Does the time to complete a class change? Does the time to recover and graduate change? Are grades different?
Action Steps(s):
Person(s) Responsible:
Timeline: Start/End
Needed Resources
Evaluation
Meet with Principal and other stakeholders to review action research topic
Jason Thompson
12/12 – 12/12
Conference room
Did we come to agreement on topic?
Measure time to complete classes using previous program compared to new program
Jason Thompson
1/13 – 5/13
Reports from both programs
Compare reports
Measure time to complete credits in order to graduate of old program compared to new
Jason Thompson
1/13 – 5/13
Reports from both programs
Compare reports
Measure differences in grades of individual classes of old program compared to new
Jason Thompson
1/13 – 5/13
Reports from both programs
Compare reports
Compare graduation rates of students involved in old program compared to new
Jason Thompson
1/13 – 5/13
Reports from both programs
Compare reports
Evaluate data to explore programmatic patterns
Jason Thompson, Principal, Debbie Wolff
5/13
Data collection

Present findings to stakeholders
Jason Thompson
12/13


6 comments:

  1. I like your inquiry. The only thing I would suggest is to somewhere get teacher feedback from students and teachers. See how they feel about the program and if students like it better.

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  2. Jason, I would also suggest that you be more specific with your timeline. All dates seem to be very generic. If it is only going to take 4 months to complete the four tasks from 1/13 - 5/13, I recommend listing each as a month long (if possible). Good luck in your Action Research!

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  3. I would be cureious to know if the software better for particular sub pops? I wonder if results would vary as you look at the data in these special areas.

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  4. Jason, I would be a bit more specific about my dissemination. In what way will you present the findings to stakeholders? Do you plan on a presentation? Do you plan on producing a booklet?

    Fantastic research question btw.

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  5. I agree with Chris Brannen. How are you going to present your findings to your site supervisor? What are you hoping you'll discover in the end?

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  6. It sounds like an interesting topic. I didn't mean to post so short before. Good luck! Any comment on mine would be welcomed.

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