Blog URL: http://coachhurst.blogspot.com/
Number of AR Project Documented Hours: About 50
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Project Summary (at least 250 words):
My action research project is looking at the high
school freshmen who were promoted from the eighth grade even though they failed
one or more STAAR tests. These students
would not have been promoted under the SSI (Student Success Initiative) with
the old form of state testing (TAKS).
Out of nearly 700 freshmen who were on campus this status applies to 74
(non-modified) students, and they are the focus of my research.
Under the old TAKS system these students would not
have been promoted to high school without a unanimous vote form all of their
teachers and counselors. With the new
state system of assessment STAAR not having such a protocol, I wanted to follow
these students and see if they could be successful in high school despite not
achieving on the test.
After pulling all testing data and determining which
students would be part of the research, all grade data was compiled for the
full freshmen year of these students.
And all core subject teachers were then given a survey to help determine
if the students were, in their opinion, actually academically ready and just
didn’t have appropriate study habits or if they in fact had large gaps that
needed to be addressed.
Currently all data is being processed to determine
how successful these 74 students were, and unfortunately this step is taking a
little longer than was expected as the system needed to pull grades was updated
over the summer and I lost all of that time to work. The next step will then be to pull the freshmen
year STAAR test scores for these kids and see if there was an increase in
performance or if there are still struggles.
I feel that the project is moving along nicely for
the most part, and am in hopes that we will get some great insight into how good
an indicator of student performance these high stakes standardized tests
are.
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