790 Blog #2 - Having reviewed the IRB, what do you need to know to address your DQ? Why? How would you measure your “need to knows”?
Loosely following Falk’s and Mertler’s outlines of how to formulate and refine a driving question for action research, here’s draft 2 of my driving question. (At the time of writing this blog, I haven’t been able to access the IRB site.) Framing the Question What impact does time spent reading have on reading competency? Subquestions:
Clarifying the Context and Background In my current teaching context at Independent Studies, my students spend far more time at home than they do in the classroom. I have perhaps an hour of instruction time per week. Predominantly their reading skills will be acquired independently. Creating strong readers has long been a passion of mine as a teacher. I am trying to find a way to increase overall reading fluency and reading comprehension in my students without the benefit of direct or guided instruction and time spent reading in the classroom. When I examine my own perceptions and biases around this topic, I admit that I probably already have a hypothesis that I want to test. I perceive and hypothesize that children who spend more time reading have stronger reading fluency and comprehension. I further believe that increasing reading time will result in stronger reading competency, perhaps within a relatively short amount of time such as a few months. Scrutinizing my own biases, I find that I’ve formulated an anecdotal and perhaps incorrect assumption that kids spend less time reading now than they did two or three decades ago. Further, I have attributed this perceived decrease in reading to increased technology and screen time. My observation is that easy access to television and video games has largely replaced recreational reading. I’m curious to see what the research on this topic shows and what my own action research will reveal about my own students. Need to Knows
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2/20/2017 04:08:40 pm
I've enjoyed reading about your ideas and thoughts on engaging students to want to read. I have students read about different cultures that have develop methods of working with clay that we study and learn from. I've found having reading for enrichment to my project based learning method helps even the slow reader to develop in their reading skills. Super job on your website. :) Melinda
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