Research Action Plan Draft using Template

Goal: To identify the most effective and efficient ways to provide struggling students with the resources and opportunity to make the improvements necessary to graduate on time.
Action Steps
1.Identify those students in our first graduating class(2012) that have fallen behind and will need additional support and options to graduate.
2.Conduct surveys with those students and our teachers involved with all of the programs supporting those students to gather information of our current situation.
3.Document progress of current systems and programs in place and give new ideas for these students trial runs.
4.Identify which ways are the best to help our struggling students the most, and look to increase the implementation of these while eliminating or changing ineffective ones with the main goal in mind, which is graduation for all students.

Persons Responsible
1.Struggling students
2.Transition coordinator and teachers involved with programs helping students in jeopardy of not graduating
3.Administrators and all teachers
4.Research coordinator

Timeline
1.Main research and data collection will occur in the first semester 2010
2.Recommendations, improvements, and additional data collection spring 2011
3.Main changes made fall 2011
4.Final goal and conclusion will be spring of 2012 with graduation

Needed Resources
1.Current student data provided by transition coordinator
2.Surveys completed by both students and teachers involved
3.Continuous data throughout year monitoring individual student progresses and improvements
4.Support from administration and all teachers

Evaluation
1.Current data compared to progress data as year goes on as far as where students started with regards to graduating on time and where they are now
2.Reflection on survey results and changes made to include students and teachers input and draw conclusions based on student and teacher satisfaction
3.Separate each program used during research project and give individual results based on student participation and success
4.Calculate how many students graduated, how many attribute their success to our programs, and how many students didn’t reach the goal of graduation