Week 3: Action Research Draft

1. Goals and objectives/outcomes of the research investigation
• The goal of my research will be to determine in what ways do the Hamilton Middle School campus vision and mission statements currently support the campus learning community? By determining if the concepts and ideals that are set in these documents are shared by our campus staff and community we can measure our effectiveness as an overall learning community. The knowledge by campus staff that there is a shared vision and commitment to these standards for our campus we can determine if there are also ways to improve our campus educational environment. The outcome from this will be that our campus stakeholders will be able to see our efforts as a campus to provide the best possible education possible for our students.

2. Activities designed to achieve the objectives
• The activities that I will need to design to achieve the objectives include:
• Creating a staff survey
• Create KWL charts for staff regarding the campus vision and mission
• Create a student survey
• Create a community survey

3. Resources and research tools needed for data gathering
• The resources that I will need for data gathering include:
• The campus vision
• The campus mission statement
• Campus Staff health surveys
• Student surveys
• Community surveys
• Campus Improvement Plan
• Student Performance Reports
• Student Discipline Reports

4. Draft timeline for completion or implementation of activities
• The timeline for completion and implementation is from August 2009 to January 2010. During the course of this project several deadlines will exist for collecting and assembling data,

5. Persons responsible for implementation of the action research plan
• The persons responsible for implementation of this plan will be I, the researcher.

6. Process for monitoring the achievement of goals and objectives
• The process for monitoring the achievement of goals and objectives will include the study of the following documents:
• Campus Improvement Plan
• Student Performance Reports
• Student Discipline Reports

7. Assessment instrument(s) to evaluate the effectiveness of the action research study
• The assessment instruments needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan include:
• Campus Staff health surveys
• Student surveys
• Community surveys