My presentation is complete and I am currently working on the assessments and attachments for my action research project. They include pre/post attitude surveys, pre/post writing sample assignments, tally sheet to record student engagement levels, log to record time students spent practicing the software, a standardized writing evaluation scale (rubric) used to measure student success, and the WordQ 2 User Guide which will be used for instruction.
My guiding question is, "How will the use of assistive technology, word prediction software, impact the writing productivity of secondary students with disabilities?" I have WordQ word prediction software on my school computer and I will be training my students on how to use it to their advantage. This is something I have been wanting to schedule time to do the past two years, so my action research project is proving to be very beneficial to me and hopefully a huge benefit to my students. If the statistics show a positive conclusion, I will submit a proposal to have my department buy more licenses of this software.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
CEDU520 Action Research 1
Dr. Linda Simmons is teaching CEDu520, Developing Action Research for Instructional Technology. Thus far, the knowledge I have gained from the course that I would most like to retain includes the following:
1. This was the first time that I actually entered the Stritch library to obtain scholarly articles on-line. I am glad that I was encouraged to utilize this resource because it has proven very beneficial to my research.
2. It is has been very helpful to have the Powerpoint presentation, "Action Research: What is it?" on our Wiki page. After the first face-to-face class everything was pretty much a blur due to my own level of exhaustion, to have that Powerpoint available to review helped to clear up the purpose and direction of the class and the research process.
3. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research web-based training course “Protecting Human Research Participants” was very interesting. My husband, a high school history teacher, was familiar with The Nuremburg Code and The Syphillis Study at Tuskagee, AL, but this was a new part of history to me that I believe is important to learn about.
4. Using Educator to access the Powerpoints of other researchers was very beneficial to help me brainstorm potential ideas for my research and to understand the big picture of what needs to be done for the IRB Powerpoint.
1. This was the first time that I actually entered the Stritch library to obtain scholarly articles on-line. I am glad that I was encouraged to utilize this resource because it has proven very beneficial to my research.
2. It is has been very helpful to have the Powerpoint presentation, "Action Research: What is it?" on our Wiki page. After the first face-to-face class everything was pretty much a blur due to my own level of exhaustion, to have that Powerpoint available to review helped to clear up the purpose and direction of the class and the research process.
3. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research web-based training course “Protecting Human Research Participants” was very interesting. My husband, a high school history teacher, was familiar with The Nuremburg Code and The Syphillis Study at Tuskagee, AL, but this was a new part of history to me that I believe is important to learn about.
4. Using Educator to access the Powerpoints of other researchers was very beneficial to help me brainstorm potential ideas for my research and to understand the big picture of what needs to be done for the IRB Powerpoint.
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