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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.
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Project proposal
This planning document will also form the introduction of your argument.
Overarching Question
What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
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?
"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?
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?
*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?
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?
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.