Introduction
Faryn Matney
HLRN325
Evaluation
Summary
This descriptive study researches the execution of a massive change in curriculum for fifth graders in two different schools. One school in an urban setting and the other in a suburban setting. The implementation itself will specifically be on the language arts portions of the students’ learning. It changes combines reading and language arts into a whole subject instead of keeping them separate. The students, teachers, and administrators are going to do self-evaluations in order to collect the research data needed to complete the verification of this new curriculum change. This research not only investigates the organizational factors that cause change but also looks over the difference between a student’s self-report and a teacher’s self-report. A unification of quality and quantity in the research process allows for an easier description of the change throughout the process. Data were collected in multiple ways. Not only was the data collected by self-evaluations and qualitative/quantitative analysis, but researchers interviews with teachers and administrators.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Changing a curriculum is requires extensive research throughout multiple sources. The sources that are valuable in this type of research are school districts, individual schools, administrators, teachers, and the students. Collecting data from all of the sources helps the researcher better understand if the change implemented should become a permanent curriculum or not. I was not surprised by the results of this research due to the fact that most principles like to stick with what their school has had set in place. I also expected differences in the evaluations between the two districts because the educational level of students is dependent on their home life. The school that I attend is in a rural area. The school that my fiance attended was a very urban area. Our educational levels were and still aren’t the same due to our home lives and the people that we grew up around.
Credits
Ardyth Shapiro, A Descriptive Study of the Implementation of an Integrated Whole Language Approach at the Fifth Grade Level, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2204&context=open_access_etds