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HOMELESSNESS AND THE EFFECTS ON STUDENT’s BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES IN THE SCHOOL SETTING. An Action Research Project By Tiffany Green EDUC 702.22, Fall 2010. Table of Contents. Research Design Threats to Internal Validity Threats to External Validity - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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HOMELESSNESS AND THE EFFECTS ON STUDENT’S BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES IN THE SCHOOL SETTING
An Action Research Project By Tiffany Green
EDUC 702.22, Fall 2010
Table of Contents
Research Design Threats to Internal Validity Threats to External Validity Pre-survey and Post-survey Proposed data of pre-survey and
post-survey Correlation Proposed Data Analysis References
Research Design
Single Subject Designs/Single Case Experimental: One Group Pretest-Posttest Design.
Single Group: Single group is pretested (O), exposed to a treatment (X), and posttested (O).
Symbolic Design: OXO
Threats to Internal Validity
History- Poor student attendance, constant lateness, illness or poor health, poor behavior, student outburst and disruption, child neglect in the home, drugs or alcohol abuse in home, unemployed parent(s).
Maturation- Lack of interest and engagement due to age and behavioral/emotional issues. Possible repetition of the fourth grade.
Testing- Familiarity with survey question content on both the pre-surveys and post-surveys could alter results.
Instrumentation- Both pre and post student and parent surveys will be distributed by the assigned forth grade classroom teacher of each student in the experiment.
Selection- Non random group selection. Selection -Maturation Interaction- Students have
different ages and gender
Threats to External Validity
Generalizable Conditions- Providing a safe and stable environment for this population of children in school will allow them to adjust to the teachers’ teaching style and implementation of character education on a daily basis.
Pretest-Treatment- The exposure of the presurvey to all of the participants (students, teachers and parents) will possibly yield inflated results after administering the post survey.
Selection-Treatment Interaction- The students were not randomly selected. They were chosen because of their homeless living situations.
Experimental Effects- Active elements: The researcher may have known prior history of homelessness from the teachers who noted students who were homeless more than once or for a longer period of time than their peers.
Pre-survey and Post-survey
Pre-survey: Twenty forth grade homeless students will be selected and given a presurvey about their attitudes and behaviors towards learning.
Post-survey: Character Education Treatment Implementation by teacher Pre student survey administered prior to
treatment Post student survey administered after
treatment
Proposed Data of Presurvey
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11MODE
Student 1 3 3 3 2 2 3 4 4 2 3 3 3
Student 2 3 3 4 3 2 4 3 2 1 4 4 3
Student 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 3 4 3
Student 4 4 1 2 3 4 3 2 4 3 3 2 3
Student 5 2 3 4 3 1 3 4 3 4 3 4 3
MODE 3 3 3 3 2 3 4 4 1 3 4
STUDENT PRE-SURVEY RESPONSES(1) Strongly Agree (2) Agree (3) Disagree (4) Strongly Disagree
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9Q10 Q11
MODE0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
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4.5
Student 1Student 2Student 3Student 4Student 5MODE
Survey Questions
Lik
ert
Sca
le
Student Pre-Survey Re-sponses
Proposed Data of Post Survey
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9Q10
Q11
Q12
Q13
Q14
MODE
Student 1 2 4 1 1 2 2 3 4 3 3 3 2 4 1 2
Student 2 3 4 3 3 3 4 2 2 2 4 2 3 3 1 3
Student 3 2 3 1 2 4 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 1 2 3
Student 4 4 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 1 4 2 4 2 4 4
Student 5 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 2 1 3 4 3 3
MODE 2 4 1 1 2 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 1
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
Student 1Student 2Student 3Student 4Student 5
Student Questions
Stu
dent
Res
pons
es
Correlation
Correlation between the students
who misbehave when mad and
behavior modification responses.
Survey Question 9:
When I get mad I misbehave even though I know it is wrong.
Negative correlation of
rxy= -0.19174
A negative correlation was found between children who misbehave and behavior modification.
Relationship between question 9 and behavior modification
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.50
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
Series1
Number of Students
Stu
dent
Res
pons
es
Proposed Data Analysis
The bar graph shows the results from both the pre and post surveys. The responses from the presurvey show a negative attitude towards learning. The post survey after modification depicts the same results.
Conclusion: The implementation of character education had no effect on the behavior and attitudes of homeless students.
There was no behavior modification made.
Resources
O’Connor – Petruso, S.,(2008)Stat.scales.analyses.threats.design.ppt