Kerstin's Research in Action: June 2013

Well, I’m half way through the Lamar program and things are going well, but they are getting REAL!! LOL, this week I have started gathering my data, reviewing it and I’ve started drafting me Action Research Report. I think I may pull my hair out!

During my progress, I discovered that my original plan to review classroom data and scores from our AEIS report for the last two years was NO BUENO! I decided it wasn’t legit enough. AEIS was providing me with extra information that wasn’t relevant to my project and I felt like I was comparing apples to oranges. Last year was the first year that STAAR was administered. Many of the questions were field questions and there were many changes made for the assessment this year. When I realized these two things I began to panic!!! How was I going to isolate the information I needed from the AEIS report??? How would I determine if our high-yield instructional strategies had worked??? At that moment my angel from intermediate stepped in. My friend Elizabeth, reminded me that while there had been changes to the assessment, the reporting categories where still the same. But how would I determine how our African American students did in each of those categories from the AEIS report, you ask? Well, I wouldn’t but thanks to Elizabeth I learned how to find the information in Edugence! The sun had come out again and this research project seemed possible, THANK YOU JESUS!

The more I work on this project, I have decided that primary teachers at my school need more training on Edugence and we also need the amount of data in Edugence that the intermediate teachers have. I really feel like if we (primary teachers) had the same amount of data at our finger tips we could exercise the use of more data driven instruction with our students.

More to come my friends. Keep an eye out for the information I found during my lit review.

Kerstin's Research in Action

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Quince dance?

Apples to Oranges?! Who will save the day????