Friday, June 13, 2008

possible research topics

Okay, now I think I have some ideas:
- Teaching Grammar in a Spanish classroom & student achievement on English grammar assessments (correlational)
- Differences among traditional & block scheduled lesson planning & pacing (maybe compare using data from Analysis I - achievement scores on English I EOC &/or Writing Test for some quantitative data and then do teacher surveys and view thier plans for qualitative data?)
- Which affects students more negatively, SEC or race??? What is the predictor for success, what impedes success more?

Are these feasible? Anyone have any thoughts in favor/against any of these???

1 comment:

Dr. Mac said...

Mary Beth, I am not excited by any of these possibilities. The first involves Spanish as well as English, and I think you may teach both, but that is not common. It would not be feasible to study an entire school. Don't all Spanish classes teach grammar?

The block vs. traditional schedule and lesson planning seems pretty obvious. You won't be able to get access to individual EOC scores and should not expect to use them.

Do you mean SES (SEC) and race? Much too broad.

Think inside your classroom at the micro-level. What happens there that is interesting?

You also might want to browse the NCTE website and/or ERIC to look for topic ideas.