Thank you,
Billy Schewee
| Tool 7.1 Action Planning Template | ||||
| Goal: The goal of this research is to determine what advantages, if any, charter schools have over traditional public schools regarding student achievement. | ||||
| Action Step(s) | Person(s) Responsible | Timeline: Start/End | Need Resources | Evaluation |
| 1. Gather quantitative data | Billy Schewee | October 2012-December 2012 | *Choose three charter schools and three traditional public schools (one elementary, one middle, and one high school of each type) *AEIS data from each school from 2009-2011 | *I will be looking at data from schools who have been in existence for at least the past three school years *Break down demographics of each school *Is there any additional data that would be useful in answering the research question? *Has my site supervisor approved the steps of analysis I plan to take when evaluating the data? |
| 2. Complete quantitative data analysis | Billy Schewee | October 2012-April 2013 | *AEIS data from each school from 2009-2011 | *Evaluate data disaggregated by sub-populations *Create a chart, graph, or other appropriate representation of data |
| 3. Gather qualitative data | Billy Schewee | October 2012-December 2012 | *Interview questionnaire completed by an administrator at each campus | *Create questionnaire for each administrator to complete |
| 4. Complete qualitative data analysis | Billy Schewee | October 2012-Apil 2013 | *Interview questionnaires completed by all administrators | *Review the answers given by administrators from each school |
| 5. Determine results | Billy Schewee | April 2013-August 2013 | *All previously reviewed resources and data determined from them | *Based on research data, I should be able to make a determination regarding whether or not there are, in fact, advantages to charter schools versus traditional public schools |
| 6. Determine future concerns and suggestions | Billy Schewee | April 2013-August 2013 | *All previously reviewed resources and data determined from them | *After reviewing data from action research plan, make suggestions for changes and/or improvements |
| 7. Share research data and results | Billy Schewee | August 2013-August 2013 | *All previously reviewed resources and data determined from them *PowerPoint for presenting research, data, planning and results | *Are the results produced from this action research plan understood by the intended audience? *Are suggestions for changes and/or improvements feasible and relevant? |
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I'm very interested in what your findings will be. Have you chosen the schools you will use to conduct your research? What is your position? How will you access this data? Your plan looks really good.
ReplyDeleteConstance, thank you so much for your feedback. I am currently in the process of choosing the schools. There are, of course, an overwhelming amount from which to choose and I want to make sure I do so carefully. I am a consultant at a region service center on a team that helps provide technical assistance to schools in need. Much of the data (AEIS, etc.) is open record so that won't be too hard. The rest will come from interviews of administrators and possible site visits if necessary. Thank you!
DeleteOk cool you are off to a good start. It seems like you are ready to research. Good luck I look forward in following your research.
DeleteThis is a huge undertaking! I think limiting it to 3 schools to compare is a good choice. You might also want to see the effects that students have socially, I notice a differnce in the developmental skills of students interacting with other students. I also noticed you have interviews/ surveys for principals and administrators but maybe taking a small focus group of one class of students and also conducting a survey from a childs perspective on the school. Principals tend to be very partial, whereas students can sometimes be a bit more... candid. Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great topic. It seems that if you watch the news or opinion shows that charter schools are much better than our public school system. In specific instances I am sure that this is true, but the data I have seen overall is that the opposite is actually true. As a whole, public schools outperform charter schools on state assessments across the country. I wonder if you could add a step regarding literature review to compare what other research has shown when comparing public schools to charter schools?
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