Draft of my Action Research Plan

Here is the action research plan I have chosen to complete.  I am going to try find what best motivates students to learn and if completing homework helps students to be more successful.

OUTCOMES	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED	RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES	TIME LINE	Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT	Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments
To see the different ways teachers motivate students	7/8 Staff Questionnaire	Computer, paper	Mine; core teachers	May or Over the summer
To see how students interpret the ways teachers/parents/self motivate them	7/8th Grade Student Questionnaire	Computer, paper, staff questionnaires	Mine;students	August/September after summer break
To see how parents motivate their child / to see how parents interpret ways teachers motivate their child	Parent Questionnaire	Computer, paper, staff questionnaires	Mine; parents	August/September after break
To see the percentage of students turning in assignments	Teachers give me percentages	Grade Books	6/7/8 Grade Teachers	August/September/October
To help teachers try different methods of motivating students to complete homework	Conduct a meeting with fellow teachers to offer ideas collected through staff questionnaires / percentage data	PowerPoint / Graphs	Mine	August maybe as part of a staff development
To see percentage of students who are passing Benchmarks	Collect Benchmark Data	Printouts of Test scores	Principals or Department Heads	October	October District Curriculum Based Assessment - CBA
To see what teachers think about homework completion versus Test success	Conduct interviews with Core teachers to show data of percentage of hw turned in and success on the test	Printouts of homework percentages and test score; I will use a PowerPoint and graphs	Mine; core techers	October
To see what students think about homework completion versus Test success and if there is a correlation.	Conduct interviews with a focus group of students who did and did not turn in homework to show data of percentage of hw turned in and success on the test.	Printouts of homework percentages and test score; I will use a PowerPoint and graphs	Mine	October	To see what teachers think about homework completion versus Test success	Conduct interviews with Core teachers to show data of percentage of hw turned in and success on the test
To see what parents think about homework completion versus Test success	Conduct interviews with parents to show data of percentage of hw turned in and success on the test	Printouts of homework percentages and test score; I will use a PowerPoint and graphs	Mine	October
To see if thoughts have changed about homework completion and test success	7/8th Grade Staff, students, parents	I will resend questionnaires to see if thoughts have changed about motivation for completing homework and if they believe they had a relationship to good test scores.	Mine	November
To see how students are doing on tests given by the teacher	7/8 Teachers and Students	I will ask teachers to get me their percentage of passing rates on tests they give to students in their class throughout the 9 weeks.	Mine/Teachers	August – October	Chapter / Unit Tests