My Action Research Question
How does the use of technology in my school correlate with student achievement and involvement? Are the goals of technology use within our school clearly communicated? If not how can they be communicated better? Through the results gathered my school will obtain a more refined idea of technology use within the school and its affects on our student population.
Goal: To find the correlation between classroom use of technology and student achievement and participation.
Action Step(s)
1. Meet with Administrators/Staff to approve action research plan
2. Observe two classrooms at least three times with teachers who use technology
3. Observe two classrooms at least three times with teachers who do not use technology.
4. Interview at least four students on their perspective of teacher use of technology.
5. Interview the four teacher’s classrooms I observed.
6. Compile interview questions from teachers and students. Assess to see if there are any correlations between teacher and student assessments of technology.
7. Interview librarian and observe library to see how technology correlates with student engagement.
8. Assess whether more observations are necessary. If so complete 4 more observations of students and 2 new observations of different classrooms.
9. Reflect on findings and decide if there is a correlation between teacher use of technology and student achievement.
10. Begin to specify if some modes of technology are more effective than others.
Andy look forward to reading your findings. Could use this to even request computers for classrooms. Instead of interviewing four students from the classes, interview all so that you will have a majority of the finding. You could create a survey of the technology lesson to pass out to the students so that it won't take up so much time. Just a suggestion...but if the majority swing towards technology I wouldn't mind sharing the research with my campus.
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