Revised Action Research Plan, Week 4

Action Research Plan
Goal: How has the removal of an extended academic learning tutorial period affected our students’ achievement?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Randomly select sample of students (25 from each grade level). Sample must come from bottom 75% of each grade level.	Kate Baca Counselors	March 19/March 30	Grade reports	N/A
Gather first semester grades for each grade level from last school year and this school year. Grades are from core classes only of the sample group.	Kate Baca Counselors	March 19/March 30	Grade reports	N/A
Gather benchmark scores from last school year and this school year. These would be from core classes only of the sample group.	Kate Baca Counselors Ruth Ann Vessels	March 19/March 30	Benchmark scores	N/A
Compare students’ grades and benchmark scores from last school year to this school year.	Kate Baca	March 30/April 30	Grade reports and benchmark scores	Evaluate how the grades compare. If grades are lower this year for a majority of the students, this could be an affect of the lack of extended academic learning time.
Interview two teachers, per core subject, per grade level.	Laurie Higgins Delight Taylor Patty Harshey Rachel Collins Douglas Hes Charlie Garza Gail George Rodney Allen	March 30/May 31	Prepare questions and use the same questions, in the same order, for each interview.	Evaluate the responses as they relate to the affects of a shortened academic learning period this school year.
Interview all five administrators at Hereford High School.	Richard Sauceda Ruth Ann Vessles Pete Rodriguez Rene Cano Perla Perez	March 30/June 15	Prepare questions and use the same questions, in the same order, for each interview.	Evaluate the responses as they relate to the affects of a shortened academic learning period this school year.
Survey students, teachers, and parents.	Sample group of students and their parents. All teachers at HHS.	March 19/May 15	Online surveys, accompanied by letters explaining my action research. Use school messenger and accentives.	Evaluate the responses as they relate to the affects of a shortened academic learning period this school year.
Literature review	Kate Baca	March 19/throughout action research	Internet, Lamar library, journals	Evaluate the literature and how it relates to my results of the data collection and the results from the interviews and surveys.
Evaluation of all data to determine affect(s), if any, from the removal of the extended academic learning period.	Kate Baca	July/August 30	All data, interview responses, survey results, and information from my literature review	Did the removal of the extended academic learning period affect the students and their achievements?
Present to administration and possibly continue study into next school year.	Kate Baca Administration	August 2012	Action Research Report	N/A
Decide if and how extended academic learning time will be implemented.	Kate Baca Administration	August-December 2012	Action Research results	N/A