Action Research Plan

Goal/Objective

The goal of this action research project is to help improve the perception of the school within the community and to increase the educational standards of the students.

Activities

The activities that will begin the project will include surveys and interviews, followed by data disaggregation, formation of committee to review data and plan implementation of recommendations, and finally reevaluation of school through surveys and interviews.

Resources

Surveys and interviews will be used to collect the majority of the data, standardized testing, and classroom evaluations.

Timeline

My initial time line is to use the remainder of this semester to plan effective surveys and interviews and then conduct them.  The summer will be used to review the data and plan for improvements.  The fall semester of 2012 will be used to implement the strategies used to improve the perception of the school.  The spring semester of 2013 will be used to reevaluate the perception of the school.

Persons responsible

I will be responsible for creating the surveys and interviews to be used.  A committee will be formed from students, faculty members, parents, community members and business leaders to review the data and to brainstorm ideas for improvement.  Implementing these ideas will include more people from these same subgroups.  Finally I will be responsible for the surveys and interviews at the end.

Process for monitoring achievement

Monitoring the achievement of recommendations could be as simple as visiting with our different stakeholders, data from testing, having stakeholders complete school report cards.

Assessment instrument

Interviews

Surveys

School report cards

Standardized Testing

Classroom evaluations