Changes made to my plan.

1. A control group was added.  This group consists of 25 students.  5 students from each of the following groups: Basic, Regular, Pre-AP, ELL, and At-risk.  I will follow their grades, discipline, tardies, attendance, and EOC scores each 6 wks.

2. In my findings report I am going to link the results to the components of the freshman academy.

3. I will give the same survey I give the teachers to 3 classes of students. To review what worked and what didn't in the freshman academy.

Below is the updated version of my ARP.

Action Research Plan
Goal: Does the implementation of a freshman academy ease the transition for students between middle school and high school thus improving student success on EOC scores and overall GPA from the 2012-13 to the 2013-14 school year?
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Review EOC scores for the 2012-13 Freshman in English, Math, Science, and Social Studies	Sara White and (Academic Dean)	Aug 26-Sept 6th	EOC results	Create a chart of the EOC scores for each subject area
Review percentages of freshmen students with discipline referrals, extensive tardies and to see how this correlates to the EOC scores from 2012-13	Sara White Attendance AP Martha Cortinas-Fernandez	Aug-November	2012-13 discipline and tardy percentages 2012-13 Failure report 2012-13 EOC reports	Create a chart that shows the correlation of students who failed EOC and Courses to discipline referrals and tardiness
Gather 1st Six Weeks Data: Tardies, grades, and referrals for 2013-14 freshman Control group: 25 students 5 from each subpop (at-risk and ell) 5 from each level (basic, regular and pre-ap)	Sara White Martha Cortinas- Fernandez Teachers: Kolar (Basic) Elizondo (Regular) White(Pre-AP)	October 4, 2013-October 11, 2013	Failure report Referral report Tardy report	Create spreadsheet based on six weeks data
Gather 2ndt Six Weeks Data: Tardies, grades, and referrals for 2013-14 freshman Control group: 25 students 5 from each subpop (at-risk and ell) 5 from each level (basic, regular and pre-ap)	Martha Cortinas- Fernandez Teachers: Kolar (Basic) Elizondo (Regular) White(Pre-AP)	November 15, 2013- November 22, 2013	Failure report Referral report Tardy report	Create spreadsheet based on six weeks data
Gather 3rd Six Weeks Data: Tardies, grades, and referrals for 2013-14 freshman Control group: 25 students 5 from each subpop (at-risk and ell) 5 from each level (basic, regular and pre-ap)	Martha Cortinas- Fernandez Teachers: Kolar (Basic) Elizondo (Regular) Sara White (Pre-AP)	January 17th, 2014- January 24th, 2014	Failure report Referral report Tardy report	Create spreadsheet based on six weeks data
Gather 4th Six Weeks Data: Tardies, grades, and referrals for 2013-14 freshman Control group: 25 students 5 from each subpop (at-risk and ell) 5 from each level (basic, regular and pre-ap)	Martha Cortinas- Fernandez Teachers: Kolar (Basic) Elizondo (Regular)  Sara White (Pre-AP)	February 28th, 2014- March 7th,2014	Failure report Referral report Tardy report	Create spreadsheet based on six weeks data
Gather 5th Six Weeks Data: Tardies, grades, and referrals for 2013-14 freshman Control group: 25 students 5 from each subpop (at-risk and ell) 5 from each level (basic, regular and pre-ap)	Martha Cortinas- Fernandez Teachers: Kolar (Basic) Elizondo (Regular) Sara White (Pre-AP)	April 17th, 2014- April 24th, 2014	Failure report Referral report Tardy report	Create spreadsheet based on six weeks data
Gather 6th Six Weeks Data: Tardies, grades, and referrals for 2013-14 freshman Control group: 25 students 5 from each subpop (at-risk and ell) 5 from each level (basic, regular and pre-ap)	Martha Cortinas- Fernandez Teachers: Kolar (Basic) Elizondo (Regular)  Sara White (Pre-AP)	June 5th,2014- June 13th, 2014	Failure report Referral report Tardy report	Create spreadsheet based on six weeks data
Review EOC scores for the 2013-14 Freshman in English, Math and Science,	Sara White and (Academic Dean)	June 13th, 2014- June 17th, 2014	EOC results	Create a chart of the EOC scores for each subject area
Survey teachers/students To find out what they liked/disliked about freshman academy and collect any suggestions made to change for the better	Freshman teachers and select students from Kolar, Elizondo and Sara White	May 1st, 2014- May 10th, 2014	Create survey on Survey monkey.com	Create survey And print gathered information
Analyze and Interpret data	Sara White	June 17th, 2014- June 21st-2014	EOC results Failure lists Tardy reports Discipline reports	Correlate EOC by creating an Excel Spreadsheet of EOC failures to Discipline referrals, tardiness, and course failures Link this data to the components of the freshman academy.
Share results with administration and make recommendation	Sara White	June 28th, 2014	Paperwork presentation, schedule on calendar for presentation	Handouts and presentation