Sunday, August 8, 2010

Revisions to Action Research Plan

After meeting with my site supervisor, there are several changes that I am making to my Action Research Plan. The first one is my goal. Instead of focusing on geometry concept courses, my focus will be mainly be on Algebra 1 concept courses due to the fact that it has the lowest TAKS scores across the district. If we find that the concept courses overall on our campus are not successful, then we can eliminate and ideally lower all math class seat counts. However, after my meeting with my site supervisor, I was informed that the district needs to increase its attendance rate by 1% or the district will not receive the 5.5 million dollars from the state that helps pay teacher salaries. Wit that being said, if we don't need our concept courses, we could possibly lose a math teacher and our math class seat counts would stay in the upper 20's instead of being able to lower them.
So along with my quantitative test score analysis, I will have to track the attendance rates throughout the district as well.