STEP THREE:
1. What is the title of the project?
Parents and an After School Web-Enhanced Program
2. What is the Question?
What happens to mathematical achievement scores when fifth grade students and their parents interact in an after school web-enhanced tutorial program?
4. What strategy is being used to address?
21st Century Skills (Web-enhanced programs)
5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work?
Simulations and Games
6. How will data be collected to determine if the strategy will work?
A parent survey was sent home for the parents to fill out; it was based on student math attitudes.
7. How was the data analyzed?
Data collection was based on the students’ scores achieved on their quarterly math grades.
8. What were the results?
Overall there was an average gain of about 9.2% for the students’ fourth grading period math scores. All students involved showed great interest in learning math skills and strategies.
9. How do the results inform teacher practice?
If enough computers are provided in the classroom, a web-based program can be very beneficial to struggling students. It requires individualized work on the student's part and is very student and teacher- friendly.
STEP FOUR:
1. What is the problem?
Recognizing rhyming and word families in text.
2. What is the rational for the project?
Students and teachers focus too much on phonics, and not word family and rhyme recognition.
3. What strategy will be used to address the problem?
A variety of rhyming games will be used.
4. What is the question?
How can I use a variety of rhyming games to help my students recognize rhyme and word families in text?
5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work?
Wylie and Durrell revealed that students learn words more easily using "rhyming phonograms" as opposed to complicated decoding rules.
6. How will data be collected?
A checklist will evaluate students' ability, along with careful observation. Student participation will be reviewed, along with whole group reading. It will be recorded in a teaching journal.
Reference:
Levy, J. (n.d.). Tnli: Action research. Retrieved from http://teachersnetwork.org/TNLI/research/achieve/levy.htm
