Sharing the progress and process of the action research

1. Provide Background Information

The best way of explaining the action research I will be conducting on the next few months is to provide some background information about all the parts that would conform the activities that will allow us to collect the data.

After discussing the issues with my mentor and principal, we came to the conclusion that our major issue, and the one we should concentrate our research, was scheduling and finding time for middle school students to obtain more instruction hours during extra curricular time. We are a mid-size Catholic School located in Lake Charles, LA, and our middle school students normally graduate to go to St. Louis Catholic High School or to enroll into public school for their high school years. We currently do not have any online courses, though we offer technology enrichment classes that are web-based, and algebra classes that are web-based as well.

2. Share the Design of the Inquiry (Procedures, Data Collection, and Data Analysis)

He idea is to implement online classes that can open some more curricular time for instruction for our students that are getting ready to move to high school. The procedures will take place during the third week of the rotation schedule where a sample group will be put into an online course after proving their capacities to perform an online-based course. The data obtained by the experiences with this sample group will be utilized to determine the accuracy and the effectiveness of the project.

3. Stating the Learning and Supporting the Statements with Data

The statement for this action research is based on a virtual group that can benefit from online instruction time, computer-based courses, and extra curricular hours of school. The data will provide an accurate vision of the possibilities this technique may open for a school dealing with scheduling issues, and shortage of hours due enrichment classes and new subjects that matter while preparing for high school.

4. Providing Concluding Thoughts

If the program proves to be successful and opens up more spaces for instruction during curricular time, the other departments at school can start implementing online courses for other different subjects and even for the lower graders as well. Not just middle school students will benefit from these programs, but also elementary grade levels can implement single subject or project online classes to improve the student’s performances and instructional time.