Data Collection Plan
How can I raise teacher awareness of children’s equity and access in our school?
-How can I influence perception?
-How can I influence knowledge?
-How can I influence materials?
Data Source Timeline/Plan for Collection Intended Learning/Purpose
Week 1-6
Ongoing search for and use of
Professional professional literature to inform
Literature my work throughout the
semester.
Week 1
Archival Data I will be using the SWIS data
base system to collect archival
data of ODRs with correlation
with ethnicity.
Week1-3
Preliminary I will be conducting a
surveys for preliminary survey on teachers
teachers to try to see where the gaps are
in: gender, ethnicity, and
materials.
Week 4
Survey on I will be conducting surveys on
perception the perceptions the teachers in
my school have on different
ethnicities and cultural
backgrounds.
Survey on Week 4
materials I will be conducting surveys on
the materials we currently have
and do not have in my school
that represent different
ethnicities and cultures.
Week 5 & 6
Interviews I will be conducting interviews
with teachers on the perceptions the teachers
in my school based off of my
preliminary interviews.
Adaptations/Changes made during
Data Collection Period
I intend to use the literature to learn about my
topic, and what’s current in the field. I also
plan to learn from other researchers’
approaches to data collection and to see how
their findings may be similar to or different
than the findings from my study. Sub-topics
for my literature include:
I intend to use the archival data to learn about
my schools history of ODRs with correlation
to ethnicity and gender.
I intend to use this preliminary survey to
discovery where the main gaps are in my
school. I will use it to focus my research
question.
I intend to use this survey to learn about the
overall perception of different ethnicities and
cultures of teachers at my school.
I intend to use this survey to learn about the
teacher’s knowledge of materials within or
not within the school that depict different
ethnicities and cultures of students in my
school.
I intend to use this interview based off of my
surveys to understand deeper about teacher’s
perceptions of equity in my school.
Week 1
I did not change this data source at all.
At the beginning of data collection I
accessed the SWIS data system for
archival data over the past three years.
Week 1-3
I changed this survey content to
include teacher perception. This was
changed when I was drafting my
preliminary survey. Once I started to
draft the survey I decided it made
sense to include perception rather than
create a separate survey just for it.
Did not occur-
I merged this survey with the
preliminary survey during the drafting
of the preliminary survey in week 1. I
decided I didn’t need to make them
separate, and I could include
perception in my preliminary survey on
teachers.
Week 4
I focused some of my questions on
technology since this was an area I
had more questions about after the
preliminary survey.
Week 5& 6
During weeks 5 & 6 I used a semi-
structured interview to interview 5
teachers and my principal. Instead of
just focusing on teacher perception, I
asked questions around topics that I
had more questions about from my two
surveys. I focused a main portion of
this survey on gender equality.