My Action Research Plan

Emily Faggard’s Action Research Plan
Goal: To investigate the existing knowledge of second graders’ basic math fact recall skills and to ultimately increase their knowledge to achieve mastery of basic math fact recall skills in current grade level and retain mastery when they move to the next grade level.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Collect the second grade math fact data results from first nine weeks math assessment	Emily Faggard	October 2010	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program	Gather and review data from AWARE
Survey classroom teachers to understand the strategies currently being used to teach math facts, how often they practice math facts in the classroom, and to gather student information of the current levels of math fact knowledge	Emily Faggard	October 2010 - November 2010	Survey	Gather data from surveys and analyze results
Survey second grade students to understand their current knowledge of their math facts, how they practice them, and how they learn them	Emily Faggard	October 2010 - November 2010	Survey	Gather data from surveys and analyze results
Survey parents of second grade students to understand how often math facts are being practiced at home and their understand of their child’s current progress.	Emily Faggard	October 2010 - November 2010	Survey	Gather data from surveys and analyze results
Research math programs used to help second grade students learn the math facts.	Emily Faggard	November 2010 - December 2010	Websites for accredited math programs available to use	Gather information, names, and prices
Conduct a meeting with the second grade teachers to discuss and review the information collected from the first nine weeks assessment, surveys, and research on math programs	Emily Faggard Second grade teachers at SRE	December 2010	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program Teacher, student, and parent surveys Research data collected Meeting agenda	Review information and choose a math fact program that will work best for our grade level at our school
Meet with site supervisor/principal to seek permission to implement math fact program in January	Emily Faggard	December 2010	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program Teacher, student, and parent surveys Research data collected Agenda from previous meeting with team	Either start getting materials prepared for program
Implement an accredited math facts program in second grade with the permission of my principal	Emily Faggard Second grade teachers at SRE	January 2011 - May 2011	Materials from accredited math program	Gather student work from each class to analyze
Collect the second grade math fact data results from second nine weeks math assessment	Emily Faggard	January 2011	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program	Gather and review data from AWARE to monitor progress of math fact mastery
Conduct a group interview with the second grade teachers to discuss any problematic patterning taking place from the data collected thus far	Emily Faggard	March 2011	Interview questions Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program Student data collected from math fact program	Collect feedback from interview and reflect on the results
Collect the second grade math fact data results from third nine weeks math assessment	Emily Faggard	April 2011	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program	Gather and review data from AWARE to monitor progress of math fact mastery
Conduct individual student interviews with my class of second graders	Emily Faggard	May 2011	Interview questions	Collect feedback from interviews and reflect on the results
Survey parents of my second grade student class to understand how they will help their child practice their math facts over the summer	Emily Faggard	May 2011	Survey	Gather data from surveys and analyze
Collect all second grade students’ math fact data from math fact program being used	Emily Faggard	June 2011	Student data	Gather and analyze data collected to understand what students achieved mastery of math facts
Collect the second grade math fact data results from fourth nine weeks math assessment	Emily Faggard	June 2011	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program	Gather and review data from AWARE to understand which students have achieved mastery level of math facts
Conduct a group interview with the second grade teachers to find out likes/dislikes about the program, analyze data together to see if the program did/did not worked, and discuss implementing the next school year	Emily Faggard Second grade teachers at SRE	June 2011	Interview questions Student data collected Tool 8.1 CARE Model: Planning Tool	Collect feedback from interviews and reflect on the results
Continue to implement an accredited math facts program in second grade with the permission of my principal	Emily Faggard Second grade teachers at SRE	August 2011 - May 2012	Materials from accredited math program	Gather student work from each class to analyze
Survey teachers on the third grade team to understand if students retained their math facts and carried them over to third grade	Emily Faggard	October 2011	Survey	Gather and analyze data from survey and make changes needed to current second grade math fact program
Collect the second grade math fact data results from first, second, third, and fourth nine weeks math assessment	Emily Faggard	October 2011 January 2012 April 2012 June 2012	Classroom data assessment result print-offs from the AWARE program	Gather and review data from AWARE to understand which students are achieving mastery level of math facts