Survey Time!

Step one of two has been completed dealing with my surveys. I created a short, ten question survey utilizing Survey Monkey and have sent the link to all staff at my site school. I will be following up with the staff in about two weeks, due to it being TAKS time and my survey is not top priority. However; I very excited and anxious to get their results and feedback. I am in the process of compiling a parent survey that will be sent to the site principal and PRE for approval. I need to touch base with my site principal to get her feed back on whether to sent it to ALL students, or just my sample group. Speaking of sample groups, I will be choosing them within the next two weeks.

Overall, my action research plan is coming along great!

'Visual' update on progress.

I am a visual person, so I am posting updates about my progress using a color coded action plan.
RED will indicate COMPLETED and GREEN will indicate IN PROGRESS.

Action Steps(s)	Person(s) Responsible	Timeline: Start/End	Resources	Evaluation
Meet with site supervisor to obtain approval of action research plan	Amy Clark (self) and Cheryl Alexander (site supervisor)	2/29/11 – 3/21/11	*Internship Plan *TAKS data	*Approval of topic
Collect and disaggregate AEIS and Edugence reports	Amy Clark	3/21/11 – 5/1/11	*Edugence System *AEIS reports for campus	*Collection of data
Develop anonymous teacher survey. Input questions to Survey Monkey. Obtain approval to submit to teachers.	Amy Clark – survey Cheryl Alexander – approval	3/24/11 – 4/15/11	*Survey Monkey	*Feedback and approval from site supervisor
Present action research topic and overview to staff at Steadham Elementary. Distribute anonymous teacher survey view Survey Monkey.	Amy Cark	4/22/11 – faculty meeting	*Power Point presentation *Link to Survey Monkey – anonymous teacher survey	*Response to presentation. *Results collected from survey.
Select sample group	Amy Clark and Cheryl Alexander	5/1/11 – 5/15/11	*TAKS data from past 3 years (AEIS)	*Discussion with classroom teachers
Develop survey for parents.	Amy Clark	3/21/11 – 4/30/22	*Parent Survey	*Feedback from site supervisor
Review literature related to poor student performance in the African American male population	Amy Clark	3/21/11 – 7/1/11	*Peer reviewed literature related to study	*Comparison to current demographic at site campus

Data, More Data, and even More Data!

Over the past week and a half, I have been pulling TAKS results for my specific subgroup. I have pulled years 2007 – 2010. I just need to zero in on the MALE population. This is a little more difficult than I had anticipated, but I keep pressing ahead.  I have also pulled several articles related to the underachievement of the African American male population in our educational system. There is a lot more articles out there, and finding the information I need has been fairly easy. Now, I haven’t fully read the articles, so I can’t say if it contains the RIGHT information needed for my research.

I am presenting my action research topic and plan of research to the staff on April 22. This will be a short 5 minute presentation. At this presentation, I will also be distributing the link they can go to, in order to access the teacher survey. Even though I still have a tremendous amount of work to do with my action research, I am making good progress and keeping on track.