Revised Action Research Plan

SCHOOL VISION: Properly train students to become an excellent Nurse Assistant by adhering to all the state policies for CNA schools.

GOAL: The goal of my research is to find new and consistent ways of assessing, evaluating and collecting data for students in a CNA Institute as it will comply with the state’s policies & regulations.

OUTCOMES	ACTIVITIES	RESOURCES/ RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED	RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES	TIME LINE	Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT	Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring  and assessments
Policy Handbook	Gather updated information from the Director’s Guide of State Policies.	Pull the Director’s Guide from the Internet	Each staff will gather policies on students’ entrance requirement.	2 weeks prior to beginning of class	Go through the Director’s guide with staff members and propose an entrance assessment based on the policies stated in the guide.
Students’ Assessment	Give students forms to fill out.	Browse the internet for sample assessments.	Compose students’ entrance assessment that meets states’ standard.	1 week prior to beginning of class.	Have staff members review the Student’s Assessment and make suggestions.
Data Collection	Go through students’ files and make sure everything is complete and adheres to the state policy.	Print out enrollment checklist.	Place student’s documents in a particular order inside their files	Week 1 of class	Have other staff go through the files to make sure that all the required documents are inside students’ files.
Decision Making	Compare students’ grades.	Gather the grades of students who were accepted into the program due to doing well in the assessment. and compare them with previous students’ grades.	Have instructors confirm the grades of each student.	One week after class is over.	Check prior and present students’ class average and make a decision on the method that works best in assessing the students.

Action Research Plan (re-posted)

The goal of my research is to find new and consistent ways of assessing, evaluating and collecting data for both students and staffs as it will comply with the state’s policies & regulations which will also place the students in a proper classroom setting. The research plan will first be approved by the administrator and the school staffs and I will implement the plan. In order to implement the research plan, I will compose an evaluation form where students can evaluate not only the teacher but the course; I will gather information on the courses that the students will be covering in classroom and compose an evaluation to check their familiarities with those courses, and also to test their IQ levels.
The initial step of my research begins from the staff that have been working in the school; after gathering information from the staffs I will further my research by looking online, researching other schools’ ways of assessments and evaluations and comparing them to what my school does; then the next step will be to contact Texas Workforce to further look into their policies for school assessment and evaluations, then I will analyze all the information that I gathered and get an approval from my site supervisor to put the new plan of assessment to work. This month I will be gathering more information on prior issues that the school had with properly evaluating the students and researching the state policies; In November (next month), I will draft out evaluation forms which will be approved by the administrator, and comply with the state policy; I will also sit in during student enrollment and in classroom to monitor to see if the new system is working. As part of my research I will go through the school’s record book to see how many surveys has been done for the year and in the past; Search for what the school has been sighted for in the past and see what the plan of corrections were. I will also use my site supervisor as part of my resource to get more information on assessing the students and evaluating the staff.
To monitor the progress of the research my plan is to sit in classroom with students to observe each person comprehends to what’s being taught; I will also observe how the students relate to each other, to see if some people feel more or less smarter than other.
If students are not properly evaluated prior to placing them in a classroom, it is possible for some students to feel inferior to the others probably because they are more experience in the field that is being taught. For instance some people go to nursing school (CNA) to get a certificate after they’ve already been working in the field without a certificate, if they get thrown in a class with someone that has no experience, they might comprehend more than the other person.
Most times it is difficult to cover all the rules and regulations especially when they are a lot and they keep changing. I will recommend having a monthly staff training where staffs cover different sessions of the Director’s Guide. The process of assessment and evaluation will place different students in the classroom that best fits their needs to comprehend what is being taught in the classroom in the level that they can understand.