8/31/23 – Thinking about lag and lead measures in my other coursework for my innovation plan has helped me think more about gathering data that supports and improves my plan. If I can’t show success through data, my plan will not have the buy-in for my participants and my administration that I require (McChesney, et al,, 2021).
The topic of my action research will center around how Blended/Personalized Learning supports the learning needs of Emergent Bilinguals. My study will look at the effectiveness of specific Blended/Personalized Learning components on learning outcomes for Emergent Bilinguals (Mertier, 2022).
I plan to create a study using both quantitative and qualitative data because a mixed approach will provide the well-rounded results that I need to gauge the effectiveness of these specific Blended/Personalized Learning components. This data will also gauge the effectiveness of my innovation plan. This is why I believe the mixed methods approach is the best approach if you can use both types of data for your action research. At this point, I plan to use numerical score results from assessments along with surveys containing open ended response items and scaled measurement responses as my data points (Mertier, 2022).
References:
Mertler, C. A. (2022). Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators. Sage Publications.
McChesney, C., Covey, S., Huling, J., Thele, S., & Walker, B. (2021). The 4 disciplines of execution: revised and updated: achieving your wildly important goals. Simon and Schuster.
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