Friday, February 10, 2012
Making Changes
After doing more research on my topic, I have decided to change the terminology that I have been using. My current question is "In what ways does homogeneous grouping affect student academic growth in first grade literacy?" I should actually be using the term ability grouping instead. My research project involves the first grade classrooms switching from within-class ability grouping to between-class ability grouping for Balanced Literacy instruction. There is research supporting ability grouping for Reading instruction as long as the students spend the rest of the day in a heterogeneous classroom. Therefore, my new and improved question is "In what ways does between-class ability grouping affect student academic growth in first grade literacy?" Much better.
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I too am considering changing the verbiage of my question. I have found that the motives of my research do not match the wording of my question. I am still working on it because my plan is multi-faceted; I have to create a question that encompasses the entirety of my plan. I think that your change was a good one. I will comment about my own personal problem on my blog soon.
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ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of work to figure out which student goes into each group! I think it will be a great asset to the school to have the information of which group the students should be in. Also, I think students do better when they are ability grouped. They don't feel threatened or overly gifted. Great plan!
I find this topic very interesting-----grouping that is. I am a huge fan of group work, however, I tend to struggle in my grouping techniques. I co-teach, so I usually try to mix my gen ed kiddos with my sped kiddos, but have found that this is not always the best approach. I do know that students do learn from each other, and have often found that sometimes they learn more from their peers that they do from me. I think this is going to be a great project and I look forward to reading about your findings. Good luck~!
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