I completed my project proposal.

I am currently not very proud of anything related to this course. I am
trying to balance many things at once and this course ends up getting neglected
until I can catch a breath from other things. I am in general just worried
about where I am in this course. I feel like I fall behind quite often
in terms of schedule. I don't struggle with materials though. No new skills
or ideas so far.

proposal.md

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 ### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
 
-*This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5
-sentences to describe why you are interested in it.*
+*The question I'm interested in exploring is 'How has COVID-19 pandemic impacted student's matehmetical skills'. I am interested in this question because in my teaching residency placement, I have noticed that the students in my physics class lack the fundamental mathemetical and computational reasoning skills that they should have achieved by grade level. I have been hearing from veteran teachers that their cohorts who were in middle school during the pandemic are the most prominent victims of this situation. I want to compare data for a cohort that has gone through the pandemic and compare their dataset to a cohort that has not.*
 
 ### What specific research questions will you investigate?
 
-*List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable 
-using your data set.*
+*"1. How has COVID-19 pandemic impacted student's matehmetical skills. 2. Is there a decrease in mathematical proficiency for the COVID-19 middle school cohorts? 3.How does mathemetical proficiency of high school students differ between COVID-19 middle school cohorts and the cohorts before them?*
 
 ## Data source
 
 ### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question? 
 
-*Give the title of your data set and provide a link to your data.*
+*I will be using the NYSED data as my resource. I will be using their data for my residency high school specifically. I will be using the archived report cards and pull from section 2: Student Performance - Regents Exams in these report cards. 
+https://data.nysed.gov/archive.php?instid=800000052345*
 
 ### Where is this data from?
 
-*Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but
-the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.*
+*As mentioned above the data is from NYSED. I do trust this data because it is directly from the State and it includes data from their statewide official examinations that have set standards and *
 
 ### What is this data about?
 
-*Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows 
-and some of the columns which will be important to you.*
+*This data set is about the Regents testing scores of Cheektowaga High School. It includes all subjects (10 rows) however I am only interested in math related tests (rows 2-4). I am also focusing on general education students (column 2) instead of all (column 1) or special education students (column 3). Every column has built-in columns for specific data such as total tested, percentage of students scoring at or above 55, 65 and 85.*
 
 ## Methods 
 
 ### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
 
-*For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set 
-to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).*
+*First I will choose 3-4 cohorts, at least one that was in middle school before COVID-19, one during and one after. I will look at each cohort's performance across middle and high school years. I plan creating a line graph for each and then comparing these with each other. I also want to compare the percentages of below and above passing scores in each cohort. This can be tabulated.*