A Little Change Doesn't Hurt

First of all, a million thanks for commenting on my action research plan! Although I'm not totally changing courses as the picture might suggest, the comments were great and got me to think a little bit more about some small changes I might want to make. 

There were a couple of comments asking about how the intervention was going to be done. They wondered whether it was done by the teacher, a pull-out, or a push-in. In this case, there will be a little of everything. There are two teachers who are providing the intervention for their students during small group time in class. However, one of them tends to lean more towards “whole group” instruction and is having a hard time getting started. As an intervention teacher, I am “pushing in” to one of the classrooms and providing the intervention with a small group in class. However, there are two students who are getting pulled out from their class in order to join my "push in" group. All of this led to a new wondering. Does the method of the intervention play a part in the effectiveness of it? At first I was going to combine all of the students’ data into one group. However, now I have decided to separate the students based on the type of intervention method that they are receiving. By doing this I will be able to compare the different groups to see which ones had greater success.

Another comment that made me rethink part of my action research plan was Farley's question about how often I was going to look at the Istation data. I had planned on just looking at the results of the universal screener done at the beginning, middle, and end of the year. He made the suggestion of administering the monthly Istation test to these students in order to keep better track of whether the intervention was making a difference or not instead of waiting a whole year. I'm planning on adding these monthly assessments to my action research study!