Action research update!

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.