Challenges to the Action Research
I foresee a couple of challenges that may present themselves with my action research. I am only taking one grade a week next year.
1. Parents will question whether their child is going to fail because there are not enough grades.
I will address this issue by explaining the grading procedure to them in detail. I will assure them that their child will be able to redo any assignments that are low grades for points back on the assignment. I will also explain to them that I am able to give more feedback to the students.
2. The students will think that their assignments don't mean anything.
I plan to address this early on in the year. At the very start to be exact. All of their assignments will be worth their time. I plan on taking a quiz/test every week. They will be able to use notes or any assignments that they feel will help them with their quiz/test. They will notice that if they do the work in the class they will know the questions on the quiz.
3. The teachers that are also doing this will start deviating from the proposed plan.
I will try and talk to the teachers and explain the importance of this action research. The teachers that have agreed to only take one grade were also on my grading policy committee. They have read all of the same research that I have and so I hope they feel it is worthy of taking a look at.
