It seems flippant to say it this simply, but the context for my questions is: too many students are reading below grade level, and those that are at grade level often don't progress quickly enough to keep up with the pace required to stay are grade level. I'm looking at how to engage students with their reading, can we raise their reading engagement levels by having them work with a digital tool (something like Prezi or Glogster) to report on their reading?
I'm going to use SRIs (lexile levels), caaspp scores, and students self-assessment to measure their levels of engagement. Now my data is going to say what it says, and it's bad practices to expect specific results from you data. BUT it would be nice if there was an increase in student engagement, because then I can implement the sue of that digital tool and know that I'm making a difference! It seems more likely that the answer won't be that clear cut, but a researcher can certainly dream right?
Approximately 70% of the local 7th grade students last year scored basic or below basic on both their Winter and Spring Scholastic Reading Index (SRI) tests. The importance of this research study is as follows: it’s clear that many students are not performing well when assessed on their reading. It is logical to connect this to their levels of engagement (whether to say that their low engagement causes poor performance, or that poor performance leads to low engagement isn’t clear from the ex post data being used for phase one, and will be addressed in phase two.) It is important to find ways to boost student engagement levels for reading. If the use of a digital tool (either Glogster or Prezi) can have an influence on students’ levels of engagement, it is important for teachers to know.
I'm going to use SRIs (lexile levels), caaspp scores, and students self-assessment to measure their levels of engagement. Now my data is going to say what it says, and it's bad practices to expect specific results from you data. BUT it would be nice if there was an increase in student engagement, because then I can implement the sue of that digital tool and know that I'm making a difference! It seems more likely that the answer won't be that clear cut, but a researcher can certainly dream right?
Approximately 70% of the local 7th grade students last year scored basic or below basic on both their Winter and Spring Scholastic Reading Index (SRI) tests. The importance of this research study is as follows: it’s clear that many students are not performing well when assessed on their reading. It is logical to connect this to their levels of engagement (whether to say that their low engagement causes poor performance, or that poor performance leads to low engagement isn’t clear from the ex post data being used for phase one, and will be addressed in phase two.) It is important to find ways to boost student engagement levels for reading. If the use of a digital tool (either Glogster or Prezi) can have an influence on students’ levels of engagement, it is important for teachers to know.