INTASC+Principle+6


 * __Portfolio Reflection Artifact #6: Action Research Project __**




 * Description of Artifact: ** The artifact is a pilot research project that relates to assessment (Appendix J). It is based on field experiences conducted at DuVal High School. The artifact seeks to investigate how integrating Web 2.0 technology improve students’ Affective Domain.


 * ITASC Principle ****#4: Content Knowledge. **The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) he or she teaches and creates learning experiences that make these aspects of the discipline accessible and meaningful for learners to assure mastery of the content.


 * ITASC Principle ****8: Assessment. ** The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner.


 * ITASC Principle #9: ** **Professional growth/reflection **. The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effects of his or her choices and actions on others (students, parents, and other professionals in the learning community) and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.


 * Explanation of How Artifact Demonstrates Achievement of Principles: **The completion of field experiences that provided the foundation to conduct research based on theory and observations. The action research demonstrates the researcher educators’ instructional and assessment strategies through peer tutoring, observations, and research. These elements are a recursive process in which each phase is constantly referred and compared to find and reach conclusion on assessment of attitudes, values and interests.

This artifact records the students’ cognitive and affective domain development .Data is recorded, organized, and reflected upon by the educator researcher to make inferences and conclusions about the student’s learning based on theory and actions taking to increase the students’ affective domain. This affective domain is compared against the cognitive theories with emphasis on how to improve instruction through technology integration.


 * Description of how the completion of this artifact has affected your understanding of teaching and learning, and/or how it may contribute to your effective teaching/learning in the future. **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This artifact has improved my understanding of practitioner work in many ways. I have gained much insight on how to conduct practitioner research, make adjustments to teaching strategies, and choices in approaches use students affective domain to improve instruction. I have learned that conducting research is a very thorough process in which there are many important parts that is imperative to the success of practitioner work. I will be able to use the assessment strategies discovered to further my own practitioner work in the future.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Strengths: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">My confidence is a good trait that I possess as I move more into practitioner research. I feel good about how to conduct research and developing ideas on how to communicate with students, parents, and teachers with emphasis on gathering data for evaluation.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Areas for Improvement: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif;">I need to improve on my approach to conducting research. I feel I need to be more organized and strategic in my research and data collection. I need more experience with assessing students so I can make better inferences about their needs. I also need to improve my writing skills so that my research can be of high quality. I will seek to take more writing skills courses to fill that gap.