Action Planning Template | ||||
Goal: To discover the correlation between dress code violations that result in missing class time and student's academic success in his/her overall grades. The administration will then use the findings to solidify, or modify, the dress code policy in a way that it is beneficial to all. | ||||
Action Steps(s): | Person(s) Responsible: | Timeline: Start/End | Needed Resources | Evaluation |
Review current dress code policy. | David Tarver Jim Yancey Mary Laigle | May 2013 | MWHS Student Handbook | None |
Survey Faculty, Staff, and random classes of students. | David Tarver | May 2013 | Survey Questionnaire | Use survey questions to gain insight on the opinions of others, regarding the effectiveness and/or perceived flaws in the current dress code policy. |
Collection of Data
| David Tarver Jim Yancey Mary Laigle Office personnel | May 2013 - June 2013 | Discipline referrals and any other paper, or electronic record, of violations. | Categorize data from discipline referrals into the various forms of violations. |
Collection of Data
| David Tarver Office personnel
| June 2013 | Final reported grade records. | Get access to the overall grade records for students that meet the criteria of dress code violations. . |
Review Data Analysis
| David Tarver Jim Yancey Mary Laigle | June 2013 | All Data Collected | Develop a report for EDL class as a halfway point in research. Interpret findings and information learned from project. |
Collection of Data | David Tarver Jim Yancey Mary Laigle Office personnel | August 2013 – January 2014 | Discipline referrals and any other paper, or electronic record, of violations that meet the criteria of dress code violations under the new policy. | Review the data received under the new dress code policy to compare the results from the previous year. |
Collection of Data
| David Tarver Office personnel
| January 2014 | Final reported grade records. | Get access to the overall grade records for students that meet the criteria of dress code violations. . |
Complete Report of Data Analysis | David Tarver Jim Yancey Mary Laigle Office personnel | February 2014 | All Data Collected | Develop Action Research Report on all findings describing correlation of dress code violations and student's overall grades. |
Meet with site supervisor and discuss how research findings have shown the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of the new dress code policy. | David Tarver Jim Yancey Mary Laigle | February 2014 | Action Research Results/Artifacts | Feedback from Supervisor |
Report findings to Campus Improvement Committee | David Tarver
CIC | March 2014 | Action Research Results/Artifacts
Action Research Report
| Introduce and present Action Research Report with CIC, and discuss whether the current policy is functioning in the best interest of the students. |
Revisit my action research plan, post on educational blog for continual improvement and ideas. | David Tarver | April 2014 | Action Research Results/Artifacts
Educational Blog | Review comments and feedback from site supervisor, teachers, and grad school colleagues. |
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Dress Code Research
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As I've mentioned in the discussion board, I believe you are on a very enlightening track with your research. I would encourage you to perhaps read on the debate of uniforms in a school setting and the results of them. I know I have seen what uniforms can do and perhaps for you reading literature on this issue could help you gain a better understanding.
ReplyDeleteI love the topic. I am all for uniforms or a strict dress code. I feel that it has a lot to do with discipline issues, and discipline issues affect grades. I agree with Raegan that you should check out uniforms. When I become principal, I'd like to implement uniforms if I go to a school that doesn't have them.
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty hot topic of conversation at our school, but we have yet to implement a dress code policy at our high school. We do have a dress code policy at our middle schools though. It's very interesting. When I originally asked why the middle school has one and the high school didn't, I was told because in middle school is where students are forming themselves and discovering their own style. They said it's also the time when students are figuring out when kids have more expensive items and they want to make it more equal across the board so feelings aren't getting hurt. Our dress code is jeans(no rips/holes/etc), belt (can be your own style except chains), polo (only solid colors and no logos bigger than 1X2). Polos can only have one button undone. So basically a student can only have a belt and shoes of their own choosing. Once they get to our high school though, the only dress code we have is that straps must be as wide as your id card and shorts/skirts to fingertip length.I think it will be interesting to see the outcome of missing school from the violations. Good Luck.... Please follow me if you would too. rebandsplace2.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteWhat a great topic. As a high school teacher in Texas I dread when the weather turns warm! I think standardized dress would eliminate so many problems in our schools. I look forward to following your research. Are you changing the dress code for next year and comparing issues from 2012-13 to 2013-14?
ReplyDeleteI'm interested to see the results of your study. Being in elementary, all the schools I have worked for have always had uniforms and I do think it has an impact on students behaviors. But I think it probably has a much greater impact in the middle school, high school age students, since they are so much more aware of the way they look and how others look. I would be very interested to see what your research finds. I think maybe adding a focus group of teachers, and maybe also one of students, to help give you more input from the teacher's perspectives as well as the students perspectives. Good luck with your research, I look forward to reading about the progress of your research.
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