Action Research Plan Update

My action research project has hit a bit of a hiccup and will have to be changed. My program advisor and I thought the Great Minds in STEM program would be a great plan for me to implement at our school. What we didn’t know is the program is only a 1 day event that only 120 students get to be involved in every year. We originally thought the program was a curriculum to be involved in the Science and Math classrooms to get students interested in careers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering ,Math) sectors, and we would have to take data before and after on the success of the program. This week we went to Highlands ISD in San Antonio to see the program in full force and to get an idea of what we would have to do on our end at school to make the program a success and found that the whole program is a 1 day event where the students get hands on work solving real life problems using science, math, and engineering. With our new found research and learning what the program is this one day event will not fulfill my requirements for an action research plan. My program advisor and I had a meeting this week and discussed the possible idea of disaggregating the data from 5-10 different schools that have implemented the C-Scope curriculum and review its positive and negative effects on the academics of the campus. I want to look at the data and see if the curriculum has positive or negative trends on the state tests for both high school and junior high. I will look at schools whom have just implemented the curriculum and schools that have had the curriculum for 3 or more years.