I have found that processing my data has been quite a journey! At first I was really overwhelmed with the amount of numbers I had collected but it was interesting to watch it gradually come together. Overall my research was not as successful as I would have liked, but my data did still offer some interesting conclusions about my research topic. As a part of my study I administered a content based pre and post test, which did show improvement over the course of the study. My students also took a pre and post self-assessment survey which addressed their enjoyment of school as well as how capable they perceived themselves to be. This showed no statistical shift. My study also included a daily engagement survey with an open-ended question which asked students to reflect on their engagement and motivation for the day. This showed that student engagement and motivation started high, then decreased towards the middle of the study, and then increased again at the end of the study.
I used a variety of different data because I felt that engagement and its contributing factors was a very complex thing to assess. Obviously I chose the content based pre and post test to represent what my students had learned as a part of the study. The pre and post self-assessment survey was used to measure a shift in the students enjoyment of school as well as how talented their perceived themselves to be. The daily engagement survey was designed to measure how their engagement shifted throughout the study in response to being provided with student choice.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorI am a fourth grade teacher in Vacaville, California. Archives
November 2017
Categories |