Friday, July 23, 2010
New idea for action research
As I was completing my assignment for this week I read through the examples of inquiries in Chapter 2 of Dana's book and I finally came up with a topic that interests me and will be of benefit to my school. I have been at my high school for 5 years and every year we have done well in athletics (two back-to-back State football championships, for starters!) and above average in academic pursuits like UIL academic events, FFA, BPA, HOSA and other club competitions. I want to research the relationship between athletes' behavior and academic performance during their sports season as opposed to outside their sports season. In addition, I want to compare their behavior and academic performance with that of students who are not involved in athletics. If athletes' behavior and academic performance is significantly higher when they are encouraged by their coaches, is there something we could do for non-athletes that would provide the same kind of encouragement?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This is a very interesting topic. It would be fun to create a program to encourage students who are not in sports. I was never involved in sports, and it would have been nice to have something like that. I am now pursuing a bachelor's degree as a non traditional freshman. I am finding that if I had just applied myself a bit more in high school, this process would be much less complicated. The students won't feel as though they have stuffed up if they have someone encouraging them along the way. It would give them a sense of belonging and success without having to do extra curricular activities. Though schools offer non-sport related activities, let's face it, some students are turned off to them, though they are great programs. This could be something for those students always feeling left out. Then, from there, they may build their confidence and choose to be in another activity.
ReplyDeleteYes, teenagers are meant to feel they belong and are accepted. That would be another good topic to research: do students perform better academically when they belong to or are part of a club, group or team of some sort?
ReplyDelete