Action Research Update

My project, Effective Tutoring, is designed to analyze the effectiveness of various tutoring times on student achievement. I tutor two groups of students twice a week, one before and one after school, and my colleague tutors one large group during lunchtime twice a week. We have conducted probes at the beginning and will again after the final session as one form of evaluation. We also will compare scores from the beginning of the year and end of the year Measures of Academic Progress assessment. Before we established our tutoring groups, we analyzed the students 2012 assessment data and Beginning of the year MAP and Quarter One District Assessment data to determine student needs. We then developed a tutoring schedule that would span a four-month time frame. Within the first week of tutoring, we did comprehension probes as a baseline evaluation. We didn’t tutor during Winter or Spring break, but immediately began again upon returning to school. We have completed twenty-eight hours of tutoring with the students. After this last week of tutoring, we will complete the comprehension probes again with hopes of noting significant growth in at least one of the tutoring groups. My colleague and I will meet again to examine the progress of each group and determine whether one group showed greater success, or growth, than the other groups. We currently have met to discuss data, student progress, tutoring activities, and planning for each tutoring session for approximately twenty hours. Five additional hours were spent giving students the comprehension probes. I have just concluded the data collection portion of my action research project. I have only started on the literature review and have a great deal more to contribute. I have enjoyed the process of collecting data and am ready to begin sorting through and analyzing to determine the results.

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