Action Research Update #4

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.