All of the teachers have now turned in their TPRI data. I have spent a great deal of time working on entering the data into the online format so that it can be submitted. The teachers have all gotten their data in on time and are now working on DRA. It should be interesting once the DRA scores are in to see if my action research project showed gains or not. I now need to spend time evaluating the data from TPRI and looking at trends. I think I also want to look at the data from the teachers previous school year to see if their teaching has increased phonological awareness in their classrooms. I also want to look at how students performed in the past and see if there is a marked improvement this year as opposed to last year in their abilities. I think it would be interesting to study the results over several years to get an accurate picture. I'm not sure what trends I will see in this small amount of time.
I'm also interested to see what the teachers think about the results. I would like to see if they saw their instruction as beneficial or not when they added phonological awareness. I also want to see if this is enough to change their thinking if they do see positive results in the data.
This will be interesting....
