Friday, August 2, 2013

REVISED Action Planning Template

After some thought, and taking some feedback in, I have decided to revise my action planning template.  Please tell me what you think!


ACTION STEPS
PERSONS RESPONSIBLE
TIMELINE:  START/END
NEEDED RESOURCES
EVALUATION
1.  Start playing music in control classes during work time.

Science teacher
Aug 2013/May 2014
Cd of various composers, and cd player, student roster, objectives for the day
Will ask teacher to record students’  reactions and responses to music being played in classroom
2.  Begin recording daily assignment scores.
Science teacher
Aug 2013/May 2014
Record book or log book
Look at both the control group and the non-control group and compare scores to see if there is any effect.
3.  Send home survey to parents/guardians and give survey to students to fill out in class.
Mary Young, myself
Sept 2013
Survey given to kids to take home to parents,  and surveys given to students
Survey will ask parents if their child likes listening to music, and if so, what kind.  Survey will ask student what they think of having music played in the background during their work time.
4.  Begin testing control classes with music playing in the background.
Science teacher
October 2013/May 2014
Cd of various composers, cd player, test material
Compare the scores of each group
5.  Collect test scores from both groups and make a chart showing the scores of each group.
Mary Young, myself
October 2013/May 2014
Test scores
Using the collected scores, create a graph to give a visual of the data collected and write a reflection of data found.
6.  Give presentation to 4th grade science teacher and school principal about the finding of the project halfway through completition.
Mary Young, myself
December 2013
Data collected up to that point
Power point presentation to show how the data is being collected and what my findings have been up to this point.
7.  Send home another survey to the parents and give another survey to students.
Mary Young, myself
Feb 2014
Survey given to students to take home to parents, and survey given to students for them to complete themselves
Survey will again ask parents if their child likes listening to music, and if so, what kind.  Survey will also again ask student what they think of having music played in the background during their work time and add in test time
8.  Continue to collect daily assignment scores and weekly test scores.
Mary Young, myself
Aug 2013/ May 2014
Assignment scores and test scores from both groups.
Using a chart, I will be able to easily see if there is any difference in scores between the two groups and write reflection on data collected
9.  Compare daily test scores and weekly test scores of the control and non-control group and give end of year presentation on project to principal and science teacher.
Mary Young, myself
May 2014
All data collected throughout the year.  Test scores, assignment scores, survey input
Power point presentation to principal and science teacher to show if music had an impact of the test scores and daily assignment scores by doing a side-by-side comparison of the control and the non-control test group.  I will also pull information from the surveys to see if playing music at school had any impact on the students

3 comments:

  1. Where is your wondering? I'm a professional musician so I'm on board with anything that uses music in class. Have you thought of possibly using a different genre of music in different classes, or rotate the genre in successive weeks/time periods? Just a smattering of styles is tough to quantify...but if there is a class with Baroque, one with Rock, one with Bluegrass, then you can compare scores with more voracity.

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  2. What is your wondering? I like how you have broken it down further and more detailed into your data sources. By having a control and non control group, you will be able to interpret the data in a more comprehensive way.

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  3. I too am unsure of your wondering, and like that you have a control group to compare against. Well thought and and extremely executable.

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