My
action research project has been going great so far. Just to remind everyone
what it is all about, I will give you a brief summary. I have been implementing
it since the beginning of the school year and have been providing only hands on
science lessons for all my classes. I then compare my student testing data to
that of the other 2 science teacher’s data in the school district. All of our
students take the same assessments that C-Scope has created. To date my classes
have the best testing data of all three science teachers. My students usually
perform fifteen to twenty percent better on the assessments than the other
students as well. The last part of my action research project is to collect
data from the STAAR science exams. I am unsure who long it will take to get the
results and data back from the state this year. However I think my students are
well prepared for the exam and should perform in line with their prior
performance. One of the only problems I have encountered in my action research project
is that when students are absent it is too difficult to make up the lab. This
year has been an extremely difficult one with so many of my students being
absent due to illnesses. To remedy this problem I started recording the labs every
day, so that any student who is absent could watch it and catch up. Other than
that small glitch I plan on completing my action research project in June at
the end of the school year.
