Master's Graduation As Well As Remediating Integer Operations Question Project

Can I merely tell that existence finished alongside my master's marker is an awesome feeling? It feels weird non logging on to Blackboard every unmarried twenty-four hours to come across if grades are posted or if mortal has left a comment on my tidings post. Of course, I am all the same logging on every twenty-four hours to come across if my lastly shape has been posted to my transcript. I already know what marker I got; I merely desire to live able to club my transcript in addition to then I tin apply for a novel teaching certificate alongside my married advert in addition to novel marker on it!

Saturday, my married adult man in addition to I drove to Texas in addition to then I could walk across the stage. Since all of my classes were online, I wanted to practice *something* to brand my marker look to a greater extent than real. What could live to a greater extent than existent than walking across a phase inwards front end of thousands of people I've never met before? My parents, sister, in addition to great-aunt besides made the trip to sentry me graduate. Given that these are the people who accept listened to me complain nearly every unmarried deadline in addition to assignment, it was solely plumbing equipment that they live at that topographic point to come across me finish.

Shaun genuinely trounce me to blogging nearly my graduation. So, y'all tin read to a greater extent than nearly our route trip adventures to in addition to from graduation here.

The most challenging/frustrating/satisfying business office of my master's computer program inwards curriculum in addition to instruction was my activity inquiry project. We were asked to catch an number nosotros saw inwards our schoolhouse in addition to blueprint a inquiry projection to investigate it. I chose to focus my inquiry on the remediation of integer operations since it is an surface area where my students fighting each year. Specifically, I decided to compare the impacts of ii dissimilar forms of integer remediation: role of the number work model in addition to role of memorized rules.

If reading educational inquiry is your variety of thing, I've posted the entirety of my (56 page) activity inquiry projection here. I've titled it "Investigating Effective Remediation of Integer Operations at the High School Level." Additionally, I've uploaded the resources I used to deport out the projection here.

I accept to tell I'm a fleck hesitant to post my inquiry project. Are at that topographic point typos? Probably. I know I've already corrected a few for this weblog version that I didn't grab earlier turning inwards my lastly version to my professor. Oops. Was the inquiry projection flawlessly executed? No. To live honest, I don't fifty-fifty know what some of the statistical calculations I was supposed to practice fifty-fifty mean. Should I live admitting that? Probably not. But, I tin tell that I definitely learned a lot through the process. If I was to innovation some other activity inquiry project, I think it would decease a lot smoother because I *think* I've finally wrapped my caput around what a projection similar this entails. One of the problems alongside doing my master's marker online was that nosotros didn't have a whole lot of feedback equally nosotros were planning our inquiry projects. My projection changed shape in addition to shape in addition to then many times throughout the yr in addition to a one-half I worked on it. I went into the projection knowing I wanted to practice something alongside integers in addition to zero more. It wasn't until I started collecting information that I realized I needed to live a fleck to a greater extent than focused. As a result, I ended upward collecting a lot of information that I didn't goal upward using at all. Oops... Since I am a perfectionist, my get-go instinct is to live happy I'm done alongside this projection in addition to shop it away on a shelf to collect dust since it's non perfect. But, that's non what the #MTBoS is about. We don't portion things because they're polished in addition to perfect. We portion things because nosotros desire to decease ameliorate teachers in addition to help others decease ameliorate teachers at the same time.

So, without farther ado, here's a peek into my research. My lastly assignment for my lastly shape was to practice a PowerPoint presentation to summarize my activity inquiry project. These slides don't tell the entire story. So, if whatever of this interests you, recall that there's a link to the entire newspaper above.

Through my research, I attempted to response 3 questions:

1. At the high schoolhouse level, does the role of the number work model termination inwards to a greater extent than effective remediation of integer operations than the role of rules to live memorized?

2. Is the role of the number work model to a greater extent than effective inwards the remediation of integers alongside students enrolled inwards higher-level math classes?

3. At the high schoolhouse level, does the role of the number work model atomic number 82 to a greater retentivity of integer functioning skills than the role of rules to live memorized?

If y'all read this far, tin I merely tell give thank y'all you?

I was disappointed that none of the results from my inquiry were statistically significant. I genuinely wanted my inquiry to come upward out in addition to tell that the number work model trumps memorized rules for integer remediation. My inquiry did present that the students who used the number work model made greater gains that the students who used memorized rules. I *think* that if my sample size would accept been larger that there's a run a endangerment the results could accept been statistically significant. Or perhaps that's merely wishful thinking...