Action Research --How classroom size affects the students ability to learn and to achieve the desired results for learning at that grade level

Developing an Action Research Plan
Action Research --How classroom size affects the students ability to learn and  to achieve the desired results for learning at that grade level
Note: Steps 1- 6 pertain to Conroe ISD. Steps 6-7 Pertain to National Data and Analyzing the two
Outcomes	Activities	Resourses/Research Tools Needed	Responsibility to Address Activities	Benchmarks/Assessment	Revisions to SIP/PIP bases on monitoring and assesments
Step 1-- Determine what the current class sizes are in grades 1-12	Meet with curiculum director and counselor at each grade level	Permission from Principlas of each school to conduce interview	Jo Ann Guido	Completed by end of 2011-2012 - June 2012	Currenty I do not have any revisions as I am in the creation of the project.  As I continue with the creation and move on the revisions will create themselves and I will make the changes.
Step 2 --Once the class size is determined then the achievement level for each class needs to be determined	Gather the data for a three year period on the achievement level. Use three years to determine an average to work with	Obtaining access to the data from the Principals	Jo Ann Guido	End of 2011-2012 school year - June 2012
Step 3 - How does Gender, race, social growth and subject matter affect the learning outcome with different class sizes	Gather the data concerning achievement for these areas. Use three years to determine an average to work with. Create the data separate from Step 2 and then merge Step 2 data and Step 3 data together to start to analyize and create a solution.	Obtaining access to the data from the Principals	Jo Ann Guido	End of 2011-2012 school year - June 2012
Step 4 --Interview teachers at each level for feedback on student achievement in various class sizes	Set up interviews with each teacher to understand their class sturcture with different sizes.  How they alter their teaching structure based on class room size. How much is accomplished with each classroom size. How student behavior changes with classroom size.	Access to teachers and acceptance of Interview	Jo Ann Guido	End of 2011-2012 school year - June 2012
Step 5--Analyze Data- Class Size/Class Achievement	This step requires building spreadsheets and graphs to begin to determine how the two pieces of the data relate to each other	Spreadsheet software	Jo Ann Guido	End of June 2012
Step 6-- This step will be the beginning of actually determining how classroom size affects learning. All the data for Conroe ISD will have been gathered and organized into a format for analyzing	Compare the learning achievement with the classroom size based on how the teacher has to adjust teaching with classroom size variation.	Data that was gathered in Step 1-4	Jo Ann Guido	June- July 2012
Step 7 -- Steps 1-6 dealt with Conore ISD.  In this step analyzing the National recommendation for classroom size will be the goal	On line activity. Data should be available thru National School Sites	Internet Access	Jo Ann Guido	July - August 2012
Step 8-- Create comparison data to evaluate the Conroe ISD and National Recommendation	Build comparion spreadsheet for evaluation	Spreadsheet software	Jo Ann Guido	August 2012
Step 9 -- Once Step 8 is created the recommendation for the school can be built for presentation.	Create presentation and reiview for Principals	Set up meeting to present data.  By now the 2012-2013 school year will be underway and the data will be focused on making changes for the the 2012-2014 school year	Jo Ann Guido	Sept - Nov 2012