Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Collecting data for my action research #1

So I am using this blog to chronicle my action research data collection process.

#1
I administered the first formative assessment on asking scientific questions. This is the "pretest" before we do regular warm up type activities for two months and then a "post test".

One thing I have noticed is that perhaps I should be doing this in google forms since the data can be looked at anywhere. Also then the student name is already next to it and I can sort accordingly. Also then students can add which grade they are in and which class they are in.

I am also having a difficult time describing exactly what a scientific question. A question that could be used to create a testable hypothesis? A question that could be the start of an experiment?

There is a whole range of quality of questions submitted.
"Does the type of tree affect the color of it?"

"Why are leaves different colors?"

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