Project Update!

My project is just beginning! I recently purchased the novel I plan to read at Barnes and Noble, and I have composed my survey.  I am excited to distribute my survey and see what results I get and how those results will compare with my predictions. My case study focuses on how social class affects your education level and standardized testing in schools. I am excited to  begin reading the novel as it pertains exactly to what my case study focuses on.  I will take notes and highlight as I read.  There is not much to update since I am just beginning my project, but I am very excited to begin my work!

Planning!

I plan to use  websites and articles, and also a novel I found when beginning my research called Socioeconomic Status and Intelligence: Why Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit.  This novel supports my idea that students from low socioeconomic backgrounds perform worse on standardized tests than other students.  This novel explores specific tests and presents results from multiple tests. For my survey I plan to use my mom's pre school class's parents as my surveyors.  Through this survey, I would like to ask the town they come from, their parents' jobs while they were growing up, and ultimately the education level they received. Through these results I would like to make a connection between the social status they grew up in and the level of education they reached.  The materials I will use are the novel and my computer to take notes on my reading.  I will also use my computer to keep track of the results of the survey. The people I will use in my survey will the parents of my mom's pre kindergarten class and I will also purchase the novel.   I plan to read 4 chapters every week from the book and highlight and take notes after each reading.  The survey will take place the first week of December and I will place a printed copy of the survey in the mailboxes of each child.  Their mailboxes are where all of their schoolwork is placed for their parents to pick up at the end of the day.   I am specifically doing this because I am interested in taking a look at social status affecting education level.  Through the novel, I am going to specifically focus on standardized test scores being affected by social status.  With the survey, I plan on focusing on the broader topic of social status affecting education level reached. 

2nd Quarter Research Project

I am so excited to continue my studying in education! For my second quarter research project, I decided to use the case study research method.  I plan focus my studies on standardized testing and the variation of scores based on a child's social class they were born into.  I would like to research the scores that are present in low income neighborhoods and school districts versus upper class neighborhoods.  I would also like to utilize a survey in my research to exhibit how money and social class standings affect the education received by our nation's youth.  In the survey, I hope to make connections between the education offered to a child and the income of a family.  I am really looking forward to this project because I think it will be interesting to look at the different standardized testing scores that come from  neighborhoods of different social classes.