Updates to Action Research Plan - Week 4

I received various suggestions from my classmates and my site supervisor.  

Changes implemented on my plan include:

• I will use yearly technology benchmark data that 5^th graders are required to take.
• I will include students in my surveys.
• There will not be a controlled group, only the experimental group.  However, I will be taking a sample group of 5-6 students from each class to participate in surveys.  I decided on adding this, and not entire classes, to avoid disruption of their daily activities. 
• I have added measuring student achievement by reviewing our students’ technology benchmark data.

Following is the updated Action Research Plan:
 

Technology in Lessons
Goal:  How can we get 4th and 5th grade teachers to implement technology in their lessons?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Research other campuses and districts with similar action research projects in existence.  Research correlation between the use of technology in lessons and student achievement.	Leroy Barriga	July 2013	Internet access Survey Monkey	Research and surveys will determine if there is any other research project that answers my questions.
Research district data that has been gathered from the required end of the year technology benchmark assessments for 5th graders.	Leroy Barriga	July 2013	Internet Access District Data Campus Data Learning.com	This data will be reviewed to see how 5th grade students have historically done on technology benchmarks.  It will also be used as a baseline for on-going comparisons throughout the years.
Design a survey for administrators and teachers in 4th and 5th grade to complete before school begins.  The survey will determine how teachers feel about using technology in their lessons and how much is actually used at the present.	Leroy Barriga	July 2013	Internet Access Survey Monkey Email	Survey results will determine some of the use of technology in the classroom or the lack of technology in the class, or both.  Will this ultimately lead to increased student performance?  How can we measure that?
Design a survey for a sample of 4th and 5th grade students that will measure the students viewpoint of technology in the classroom.	Leroy Barriga	September 2013	Internet Access Survey Monkey	Survey results will show the culture that exists in the campus regarding how students feel about the use of technology in their lessons.
Meet with individual teachers and administrators to discuss my action research project and get clarification from the survey results.	Leroy Barriga 4th and 5th Grade Teachers Administrators	September 2013	Survey Results Survey Summary Develop guiding questions to stimulate conversation and discuss trends or changes needed	This meeting will determine if the teachers involved have an interest on my action research project and getting buy-in from them for my continued plan.
Repeat the beginning of the year survey to 4th and 5th grade teachers.	Leroy Barriga 4th and 5th Grade Teachers	March 2014	Internet Survey Monkey One-on-One interviews	Completed surveys and interviews.
Complete data analysis and research.	Leroy Barriga	April 2014	Survey Results Research	Visual displays of data results; graphs, spreadsheets, illustrations.
Present the results of my action research project to 4th and 5th grade teachers and administrators.	Leroy Barriga	May 2014	Finished Project/Final Report	Participants will complete an evaluation questionnaire to determine the success of presentation. (Limit it to 5 or fewer questions)