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Why do a research project?

~to learn how to think about data and method ~to be a better "consumer" of education research
~to practice being curious and skeptical
~to learn the value of empirical evidence instead of argument or common sense
~to get the focus off the teacher and on to the learner

Does it work? vs What did you learn about students, learning, schools, teaching, your subject matter?

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Using Data and Interview, I aim to learn if ABA services would be most beneficial in school or in home? I aim to learn why school district disregard the option of having ABA in school to help with special education students. I also hope to find how the student can grow by receiving services.
1. Interviews
2. Data Collections
3.

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Using surveys and questionnaires, I aim to learn about student attitudes towards being bilingual in a dual immersion setting. Do student attitudes towards bilingualism change as students continue in the dual immersion program? I would like to explore how student attitudes towards bilingualism change as the dual immersion programs shifts to more instruction in English.
1.dual immersion
2. student attitudes
3. Spanish
4. English
5.  bilingualism

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Using structured and student led Socratic Seminars, differentiated texts, and anonymous reflections, I aim to learn how implementing Brave Spaces can positively impact students' perception of our school's culture. More pointedly, I aim to learn about how to invite my young, straight, white male students to conversations about "Othering" (racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, etc.)  in ways that they have previously felt unwelcome; I also hope to see and increase in their overall outlooks on hope, equality, and camaraderie.
1. Brave Spaces
2. Othering/ Otherness
3. White Privilege/White Guilt
4. Socratic Seminars
5. Positive School Culture

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Using surveys and questionnaires, I aim to identify specific guided reading strategies that seventh grade students use for pre reading, during reading, and post reading.  I would like to compare these strategies used in a group setting, and individually in order to identify how students are interacting with specific texts.  Additionally, I aim to look at how students use the guided reading website CommonLit to practice specific reading strategies
1. reading comprehension
2. literacy engagement
3.  reading strategies
4.  academic vocabulary
5. student engagement

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Using manipulative (concrete/virtual) based instruction, surveys, and interviews,  I aim to learn about whether which form of manipulatives are most effective and engaging when teaching math to students.  Are students more likely to be engaged if they are being taught with manipulatives? Are there certain manipulatives that engage students more than others? Are virtual manipulatives more effective? or concrete? or an incorporation of both? Can students retain more information when they are taught with these manipulatives?
1. Student engagement
2. Performance
3. Retention
4. Virtual Manipulatives
5. Concrete Manipulatives

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Survey , I aim to learn about how high school students think and feel about their homework assignments

1.  Student perceptions
2. Homework
3.

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Using surveys,classroom observations, and interviews I aim to learn whether technology affects students comprehension. More specifically, do multimedia aids or hypertext's help with a students comprehension. With more and more technology being present in their daily lives would it make sense to transition from textbooks to hypertext's or multimedia aids? Would this be a benefit to students or would it be damaging to their educational experience?
1. Phones
2. YouTube
3. Powerpoint
4. Chrome books
5. Comprehension

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Using classroom observations and personal interviews with students and the teacher, I aim to learn how beneficial the TI-nspire calculators are to an AP Calculus classroom. I also intend to learn how the students use the calculators and what are the different ways the teacher had thought of to make sure that the students know how to use them in different problems and not just memorizing ways to input into the calculator.

1. TI-nspire

2. AP Calculus

3. Technology

4. Learning

5. Memorization

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Using data collection and student surveys , I aim to learn if reading comprehension is vital and truly important in a math class? Do students really need to know the vocabulary in order to understand the text and solve a mathematical problem? There are existing projects that integrate reading in math but are they necessary in order to learn the text involving math?
1. reading comprehension
2. understanding text
3. area literacy
4. challenges in text
5. math language

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Using data gathered from a phonics based instruction method (composed of teaching blending, segmenting and letter-sound correspondence), I aim to learn how it affects a small group of 6 students with specific learning disabilities with regards to their reading abilities and increase in oral language expression as compared to another small group of 6 students who do not receive a specified phonics based instruction method.

1. Phonics
2.specific learning disabilities
3.special education
4.reading
5.oral expression

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Using surveys/questionnaires, I aim to learn how to improve homework effectiveness in math classes to help ELL students improve their learning. The survey will ask questions for the students and parents about the expectations they have of a math classroom and what they want (their children) to get out of it. This research project will be focused on ELL students but it can be applied to students with disabilities or accelerated and mainstream students.. (keywords: ELD, ELL, mathematics, homework effectiveness, flipped classroom, common core)

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Using classroom observations and student interviews, I aim to learn about the short term effects of [grade appropriate] daily mindfulness practices on student's regulation of emotions. How can mindfulness improve classroom relationships between students, as well as between the teacher and their students? How can we increase student's awareness of the effects of their behaviors? What mindfulness practices are appropriate in a 1st/2nd grade classroom?

1. mindfulness
2. meditation
3. self-awareness
4. regulation
5. present

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"Using observation(methods), I aim to learn: what are the qualities of leadership? And how can I apply them to teaching? The things that I am looking for are: How do I define a leader for observation? What personality traits do they exhibit? What do they have in common with leaders that I have observed in the past; what are the common strands? Finally; how do I apply these qualities to teaching to make me a more effective leader and teacher in the classroom.

1. Leadership
2. personality
3. achievement
4. engagement
5. loyalty

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Using qualitative surveys and data from principal, coworkers, and parents of students; in which I aim to learn how student leadership effects student’s achievement and commitment to learning, I would also like to learn about the impact that the Leader In Me program has on students over a two year school term spent with the same teacher (looping), while focusing on the teacher’s commitment to the use/implementation of a leadership based program.

1. Leadership
2. Achievement
3. Student led
4. Looping
5. Leader In Me

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Using surveys and weekly quizzes, I aim to learn why students seem to be having such a hard time learning basic multiplication facts and if using basic drill sheets and listening to multiplication songs will help them memorize these facts, on top of learning through the methods that Common Core requires.

1. Multiplication

2. Fact Fluency

3. Learning Process

4. Common Core Learning Strategies

5. Memorization

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Using questionnaires, observations and interviews, I aim to learn how applications from Chromebooks and iPad technologies help students with special needs with comprehension disabilities. The goal of the study is to see how teachers utilize the technology to help special needs students, and if that technology helps students with special needs with development of comprehension.
Key words.
Reading comprehension
Engagement
Connectivity
Development
Technology