Action Research Proposal

GOAL:  Identify the benefit of using the Student Response System or “Clickers” on scores of 8th grade social studies students on common assessments. OUTCOMES ACTIVITIES RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES TIME LINE Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments Establish control and research groups with two 8th grade Social Studies Teachers 8th Grade Social Studies teachers participation Two sets of clickers Rose Linseisen Teachers August 2012 Campus common assessments Collect pre-test data for both research and control groups. Pre-test Two sets of clickers Rose Linseisen Teachers August 2012 Campus common pre-test Have the control group to test in traditional scantron fashion Research groups will test using the clickers Two sets of clickers Campus Common Assessment Rose Linseisen Teachers August 2012 – October 2012 Campus common assessment In addition to using the clickers for test, the students will use the clickers on warm ups and quizzes Control groups will have the same warm-ups and quizzes administered without the clickers Two sets of clickers Warm-ups Quizzes Rose Linseisen Teachers August 2012- October 2012 Compare the results of the control and research groups on the campus common assessments Data from campus common assessments Rose Linseisen Teachers August 2012 – October 2012 Campus common assessment Compare the results of the control groups and the research groups on fall Social Studies common assessment Test scores of 2 control and 4-6 research classes Rose Linseisen Teachers November 2012 Fall common assessment Administer a post-assessment to both the control and research groups about what they think positively impacted their learning Post-assessment survey Rose Linseisen Teachers November 2012 Review the data with the teacher and identify strengths and weakness and help them to develop a plan to improve teaching methods Data from pre-test and district common assessment Rose Linseisen Social Studies teachers Principal Department Chair December 2012