I am feeling a little more confident about this process, but a little worried that my data will be scarce with the crazy amount of snow days. I guess I'll continue on and see what comes together.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
An Organized Start...
On yet another snow day, I am beginning to work on ways to organize the data I have coming in. At this point I have collected around 2-3 extended-response examples from the participants' teachers. I have thought of many different ways to document the scores. I have taken benchmark data using the rubric that will be used for scoring the ERQs on the KPREP at the end of the year. (The link to this rubric is http://education.ky.gov/aa/distupp/pages/k-prep.adpx.) I plan to do this 2 more times throughout the study. I am also scoring the samples using a rubric (see below) specifically designed to test the RAP method. In addition, I will be having teachers score a few samples with the RAP rubric as well to ensure validity of the study. I created the sheet below to document scores in each of these areas. Each student will have his/her own sheet. I am envisioning, but haven't created yet, a table that will document an average score for each week. That will be my next adventure in this process.
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I think it is wonderful you are using the snow days to organize your data. There really isn’t a whole lot we can do at this point since we need to be in the classroom to research. I like that you are also having teachers score the writing with the RAP rubric. It will be interesting to see if you agree on the score. I also think it is beneficial that on the student sheet, you have a place for teacher evaluations with RAP and teacher evaluations without RAP. In doing this you can clearly see if the RAP method is making a difference. It seems that you are very organized.
ReplyDeleteJill, I think that using the rubric will be a good way to track that data throughout the study. I know that these snow days are killing us all. I am definitely feeling overwhelmed (big surprise!). Keep up the great work!
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