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.