Friday, April 12, 2013

Action Research

Action Research

I want to teach my students how the effort that they put into their work will see results in the progress of their understanding of the material.  I have done a complete flipped class for my Honors Algebra 2 and Algebra 2 classes.  Now that the novelty of watching and reviewing their notes by video, they are losing interest in keeping up with the notes.  They seem to get frustrated with not understanding the material because they are not focused in trying to comprehend what I am saying in the video. 

So I have been reading of how ownership of learning is more effective when the students develop their intrinsic value of their education.  Having time for the students to reflect on their comprehension level of the material and having an accountability sheet to see a concrete evidence of understanding has helped. 

I have done this accountability sheet with all of my classes and have asked the students to fill it out and submit it with a test at the end of the unit.  I have passed back their tests and accountability sheet to see if there is a correlation between the questions on the test that they struggled with to the homework understanding on their accountability sheet.

I would like to see if some students do better when they do have a physical sheet for them to see where they struggle to students who try to keep track of what they know or don't know on their own.  I will offer the accountability for one class period and require everyone to fill it out for a chapter.  For another class period, I will off the accountability sheet but not mention to fill it out.  I will see how many students will fill it out on their own.  Then for my last period, I will not offer the accountability sheet unless they ask for it. 

After the end of the chapter, I will collect the sheets and correct their chapter tests.  I will hand back both and give a survey to see if the students used the accountability sheet to keep track of their own progress or did they try to keep track on their own.  I will ask if the sheet helped for those who used the sheet and ask the students who did not use the sheet if using an accountability sheet would have helped.

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