Week 3 reflection and Action Research plan

This week has made me see that there should be even more attention to detail than I have made in the past. One thing that really stood out to me was to be very careful to check for biases. This is something that I believe we can get easily sucked into if we are not careful. I believe everyone has their own way of thinking, and likes to do things the way they feel is best. Data can be used to support that. We must be sure our data within projects such as these does not become skewed to support what we want, but to support the true results.

Action Research study

Action Planning Template
Goal: To find solutions to our increasing student absences, tardiness, and discipline referrals which are related to attendance and tardiness through participation in extra curricular and co curricular activities.
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
1. Discuss with my site supervisor areas that need to be addressed on our campus.	Jason Botos & Principal Erik Kirkpatirck	June 2012 / July 2012	Intern Plan	Creation of action research topic
2. Meet weekly with campus office personnel to collect and discuss data from the previous week 2(A) Review 2011-2012 absences, tardy and discipline referrals	Jason Botos, Principal Kirkpatrick, Attendance Clerk Shiela Timmons,  Discipline Dean Cody Chisum, and campus counselor Jodi Piper.	August 2012 / December 2012 August 2012 / October 2012	Daily attendance and tardy logs for each class, Discipline referrals related to attendance or tardiness Disaggregated attendance, tardy, and referral logs for the entire 2011-2012 school year	Compare absences, tardiness, and discipline referrals of students that do and do not participate in extra curricular and co curricular activities Additional resource used for comparison
3. Evaluate data collected from the fall semester	Jason Botos	December 2012	Semester attendance and tardy logs for each class, Discipline referrals for the semester related to attendance or tardiness	Quantitative and qualitative results
4. Compare absences, tardiness, and discipline referrals of students that do and do not participate in extra curricular and co curricular activities	Jason Botos, Principal Kirkpatrick, counselor Jodi Piper	December 2012/January 2013	Disaggregated attendance, tardy, and referral logs for the fall semester.	Disaggregated attendance, tardy, and referral log comparison of participants and non participants