Action Research Update #4!
During the month of March,
I made the following progress on my action research. One development I made
with my action research is that I was able to collect the data and consent
forms from my action research participants. The first part of March, I asked
that anyone who participated or was planning to participate in my in my study
to please partake in the research by the end of the first week in March.
Overall, I was able to get nine research participants to partake in my study. I
was very happy that nine high school teachers completed my survey and two high
school teachers took part in my interview. Although this data size is fairly
small, I believe the information I received provided me with a lot of
information I needed to help me find patterns and themes about the differentiated
classroom.
After I collected the
data and consent forms, I spent a lot of time reading through, analyzing, comparing
and developing charts that match the data. Before long, I started to see
patterns and arrange my data into different sections. For instance, from my
survey results, I divided my findings into responses that dealt with the six
Colorado Quality Teaching Standards, responses that dealt with the content,
process and product of differentiation, overall perceptions and understandings of
differentiation, and the effectiveness and efficiency of differentiation.
Another development
that I made with my action research was that I started to develop my DSIL
website diagram that helped me organized my DSIL website. The DSIL diagram
helped me imagine how I was going to explain my action research and where I was
going to place the information on my website. I decided to place my action
research and action research findings in the second to last link on my website
because I wanted my results to have a lasting impression on my website viewers.
My action research page includes my problem statement, my research purpose, my
research questions, supporting literature quotes. In addition, from the data I
received I was able to start putting my methodology research section into
words. For instance, during this month, I included a section on my DSIL website
about the participant demographics, the instruments I used to collect the
data. My action research findings page
includes my survey results, my interview results along with an analysis and
discussion of the study.
