Reading Improvement
Research Question
Does reading to my child help to improve his reading ability?
Operationalization
Problem
Research exists for a variety of reasons, some political and some for educational purposes. For me, it was necessary to distinguish how I could assist my son, Austin, with his education. My son suffers with a disability and has an Individual Education Plan (IEP) in place. This means my son requires extra attention in certain areas similar to reading and math. Austin struggles in all areas in school and remains in a specialized education classroom. Recently I went to a parent teacher conference, this is where his teacher informed me he is persistently suffering more in reading than any other subject. She instructed me that I read to him to improve his reading ability. As a research analyst one will state the research question and why it remains a problem, come up with an objective, calculate how the issue will be measured, collect the data, and use a benchmark to determine the success or failure. Although, my son is in fourth grade, he reads at a second grade reading level. He remains …show more content…
Since we are starting at the end of fourth grade level Austin should be able to read 140 words per minute and at the end fifth grade be up to 160 words per minute. Obviously that would be too high of an expectation at the end of fifth grade to go up by 60 words per minute. I would call it a therapeutic succeed if Austin were at least at 140 words per minute by the end of fifth grade, which would only make him one year behind. I would call it an experimental success if Austin reached at least 120 words per minute. In the same fashion as a parent I would accept his reading to be slower but his comprehension to be at least 75 percent. Being able to retain what he is reading is also a significant part of his
Research Question
Does reading to my child help to improve his reading ability?
Operationalization
Problem
Research exists for a variety of reasons, some political and some for educational purposes. For me, it was necessary to distinguish how I could assist my son, Austin, with his education. My son suffers with a disability and has an Individual Education Plan (IEP) in place. This means my son requires extra attention in certain areas similar to reading and math. Austin struggles in all areas in school and remains in a specialized education classroom. Recently I went to a parent teacher conference, this is where his teacher informed me he is persistently suffering more in reading than any other subject. She instructed me that I read to him to improve his reading ability. As a research analyst one will state the research question and why it remains a problem, come up with an objective, calculate how the issue will be measured, collect the data, and use a benchmark to determine the success or failure. Although, my son is in fourth grade, he reads at a second grade reading level. He remains …show more content…
Since we are starting at the end of fourth grade level Austin should be able to read 140 words per minute and at the end fifth grade be up to 160 words per minute. Obviously that would be too high of an expectation at the end of fifth grade to go up by 60 words per minute. I would call it a therapeutic succeed if Austin were at least at 140 words per minute by the end of fifth grade, which would only make him one year behind. I would call it an experimental success if Austin reached at least 120 words per minute. In the same fashion as a parent I would accept his reading to be slower but his comprehension to be at least 75 percent. Being able to retain what he is reading is also a significant part of his