Action Research Plan

Action Research Plan

Goal – To improve the student homework completion rate in order to reduce six week failures.


STEPS / PERSON RESPONSIBLE / TIMELINE / RESOURCES / EVALUATION

Step 1 – meeting / between principal, myself / before school year / principal, school lawyer / nominate volunteers, legal ramifications, use of walk through observations, discuss budgetary items if needed, etc.

Step 2 – prepare needed letters for legal consequences / myself, principal, asst. principal / before school starts / myself, principal / proof read legal documents and have approved.

Step 3 – meeting / principal, asst. principal, myself / before school starts / principal, asst, principal / to nominate possible volunteers for each core subjects.

Step 4 – secure video cameras / principal, myself / before school starts / principal, asst. principal, technology director, librarian / to secure and prepare enough cameras for use, to secure any other accessories for use.

Step 5 – meeting / myself, volunteers, principal / beginning of school / teachers, principal, asst. principal / discuss different data collection sources, creation of blogs to use, use of computer labs, begin aligning assignments and projects to video, needed questions.

Step 6 – classroom camera use / teacher volunteers / during six week periods / teachers, librarian, equipments, computer lab, computer lab technician / teachers complete use of cameras on aligned assignments and projects.

Step 7 – collect data / teachers, principal, asst. principal, myself / end of each six weeks, principal, asst. principal, teachers / to organize data and begin creating needed surveys.

Step 8 – meeting / teachers, principal, asst. principal, myself / end of first semester / teachers, administrators, librarian, computer technician, selected students / determine if modifications are needed for second semester.

Step 9 – classroom camera use / teacher volunteers / during six week periods / teachers, librarian, equipment, computer lab, computer lab technician / teachers complete use of cameras on aligned assignments and projects.

Step 10 – collect data / teachers, administrators, myself / end of each six weeks / administrators, teachers, myself / to organize data and continue creating evaluations and surveys needed.

Step 11 – meeting / teachers, administrators, myself / end of fifth six weeks / teachers, administrators, myself, surveys / to hand out surveys, to discuss timeline for last recorded assignment.

Step 12 – collect data / teachers, administrators, myself / middle of sixth six weeks / teachers, administrators, myself / to organize final data to form final evaluation.

Step 13 – meeting / all staff members / end of second semester / all staff personnel / to bring everyone up to date on final analysis and determine possible future use of cameras and blogs.