I am clearly a bit behind in my research in comparison to everyone else. Just over Thanksgiving vacation I realized that I needed a control group to collect data from as well. I sent out parent letters to that group last week and have been getting them back. Not to mention, I also had an epiphany that I also needed to collect more information from parents and students. I also needed to re-submit my IRB to reflect that I would also be collecting a parent and student survey. I have started to receive these parent surveys back and begun synthesizing the data from them. I do have some pre-test data. I only collected this data on my focus group. I intend to gather this data on the whole class next week to get a better feel of what my class as a whole is able to do. I will also be having the control group take the pre-test as well. Although I am a bit behind in my data collection I have been observing these kids for the last few months as they practice their active listening skills. Those results alone are pretty staggering. Just from the small collection of strategies I have put in place my class as a whole has exhibited a large improvement in active listening skills. They are able to follow muti-step instructions with better accuracy. They are able to repeat information that has been said to them. These were my two primary success criterion.
Next Monday we will be administering the pre-test to the remainder of the class. I will use this assessment as an opportunity to progress monitor the kids who already have a pre-test on the books. I will also have the control group take the test. Then, in the days following the pretest there will intensive active listening intervention delivered. The post test will be given the day before Christmas break. I have learned from this study that with very little intervention students are able to make improvements on their active listening. I have also noticed that teaching metacognition in any form where you make students aware of how their brain works and teaching them to be intune with the goings-on that takes place as they learn new material can help them with their learning behaviors. Trying these new strategies has helped them to be more cognisant of the importance of what and how they are learning. I look forward to finishing the data gathering process so that I have some hard data to back up the observations I have made.
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Monica
12/1/2018 11:56:41 pm
Caitlin,
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Tess Giner
12/4/2018 08:02:17 pm
Never fear, my friend. You have a plan, and it looks good. It feels like we're all going to explode, but just think about it this way. In order for our brains to grow stronger, faster, smarter, we need some tough challenges. Kinda like me walking right past See's Candy, Ben and Jerry's and Popeye's Chicken and straight into InShape Gym. It's tough, but I'm going to be in a lot better shape afterwards.
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Catalina J Goldstein
12/5/2018 02:29:28 pm
I know it's terrible to say, but I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling frazzle-dazzled. Happy said it was a good thing if our research fell flat on its face, right? ;) Not that yours will because you are AMAZING!!!!
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