EETT AR Mentors: Getting Started

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EETT AR MentorsGetting Started

• August 2008

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Review of ARs Purpose in EETT

• To document the effects of EETT funding on
  student learning
• To include teachers voices in statewide report
  to legislature
• To support teachers as they systematically
  intentionally study their laptop use

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AR Process

• Identify the AR Inquiry
• AR Context
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Implications Actions

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Identify the AR Inquiry

• Keep student achievement at the forefront
• Participants (i.e. 5th graders, low achieving 3rd
  graders, etc.)
• Knowledge, skill or ability to be measured (i.e.
  science content, phonemic awareness, social
  skills, etc.)
• Intervention (i.e. collaborative learning
  strategies, reading buddies, lab simulations,
  etc.)

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Identify the AR inquiry

• Examples
• How does the use of simulations within a 11
  environment influence low achieving 5th grade
  students mathematics learning during a unit on
  fractions ?

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AR Context

• Content area
• Grade level
• Goals for inquiry
• Targeted students
• Type of school
• Etc

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Data Collection

• Possible strategies use multiple when possible
• -Test scores -Rubrics
• -Student artifacts -Journals
• -Anecdotal records -Informal interviews
• -Focus groups -Reflective journals
• -Fieldnotes -Literature

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Data Collection

• Should be a part of rather than apart from
  classroom practices
• Create a time line to help keep the inquiry on
  track and ensure feasibility

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Data Analysis

• Most challenging part of process
• Need to mesh data gut reactions
• Individual teacher decisions

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Data Analysis

• Read and reread data to get an idea of whats
  there
• Organize data in a logical way
• Chronologically, by student, by strategies, by
  class, etc.
• Interpret data support findings with artifact

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Example finding 1

• Audio recording software and laptop use improved
  my two lowest achieving students test scores on
  weather and simple machine between 39 and 55
  points.

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Example finding 2

• Audio recording software and laptop use improved
  my two lowest achieving students behavior during
  tests on weather and simple machine.

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Example finding 3

• After starting with an average of 23.3 wpm, three
  of the four students achieved 115 words per
  minute, the 5th grade word per minute standard,
  on their DIBELS fluency tests.

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Implications and Actions

• Action in classroom
• Action in district
• Professional dissemination via conferences
  publications
• Grant writing

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Where should you be right now?

• Determine how many AR mentors you will need and
  whether you want us to provide them.
• Make a plan for running AR in your district
  (consider running 2 phases)

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Where should you be right now?

• Make initial contact with teachers at your
  earliest convenience
• Be encouraging the process is pretty
  straightforward but the majority of teachers end
  up really enjoying it

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What are we doing right now?

• Working with FCIT to get the online tool on a
  stable and secure server.
• Collecting information from each district
  regarding EETT participants.

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Contact us

• Please do not hesitate to contact us
• Kara dawson_at_coe.ufl.edu
• Cathy cathycavanaugh_at_coe.ufl.edu