PBIS Action Research Plan (Draft)

Goal:
To determine the effect of the school-wide program Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) on the students of Cy-Creek is regards to their academic performance in their TAKS classes (science, math, social studies) and other entities such as attendance, office referrals, suspensions, and detentions.

Hypothesis:
PBIS has had a positive effect on Cy-Creek in increasing TAKS scores, reducing office referrals, suspension, and detentions, while also improving attendance.

Action Steps
1. Meet with PBIS committee to discuss how to create a timeline, evaluation tools, and possible survey questions for data collection. 2. Data Collection-Split PBIS committee into sub-committees in charge of obtaining data. Sub-committees include: TAKS results, suspension, attendance, tardies, detention, and PBIS lesson implementation.
3. Develop survey questioning the students’ perception of PBIS lessons regarding their experiences and thoughts on PBIS and has it affected them or not. Also determine if it has improved the school or not.
4. Data Analysis-Design three to four specific questions to cover the following areas:TAKS Results (Science, Math, Social Studies)
Suspensions
Office Referrals
Detentions
Attendance
Most of our data will be quantitative, so analyzing the data will be easy. Afterwards, in testing our hypothesis, we will plug the data into the computer and produce a graph of the survey. The final step will be to separate our data into the specific areas, generating and measuring a graph. 5. Data Analysis II-This section of the data analysis will discuss the results and findings of the surveys.6. Reflection and Insights-What is the student’s perception of PBIS? Has it helped them outside of school? Does the way the teacher teaches PBIS lessons have an impact on how the student feels about PBIS? Why do some kids change and why do others not? How do we reach those kids who are not affected by PBIS? Persons Responsible1.Project coordinator, PBIS Committee, Administration2. PBIS sub-committees3. PBIS Committee and sub-committees4. Administration, Department Heads, Team Leaders, PBIS sub-committees5. Project coordinator, PBIS Committee, Administration6. All involved in the research project.

Timeline: Start/End
1. August 2010-ongoing meetings as needed until end of project2. September-May activities will be incorporated throughout the year 3. December 2010 for end of 1st semester4. December 2010-January 2011 to analyze 2009 to Fall semester 20105. May 2011 with receipt of TAKS results
6. August 2011 with complete data collection of 2010 school year.

Needed Resources
1. PBIS lesson plans. Collection of AEIS reports, Attendance, and discipline data2. PBIS lesson plans. Collection of AEIS reports, Attendance, and discipline data3. Free response surveys, computer labs, time built into school day4. Surveys, data analysis program.5. Data6. All analyzed data, reflection questions.

Evaluation
1. Reflection on chosen activities.2. Teacher observation and data collections on observations, student surveys, sample assignments.3. Analysis of surveys.4. Data Analysis.5. Data Analysis of cultural perception, group academic activities, and group social perceptions.6. Group observations, sample materials, surveys, and discussions.

Reflection:
How does PBIS expand do outside of the boundary of the school? Are students exhibiting positive social behaviors learned while off school grounds?