Revised Action Research Plan

Hadsell Action Plan- Revised 11/1/12
Goal: Determine if high school students are financially educated and evaluate if high school curriculum is sufficient to prepare students to make independent, wise financial decisions in the future
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Surveys will be distributed to  teachers, admin, parents, and students to levels of financial education	Myself	Will distribute surveys in January 2013, and request return within 2 weeks	Surveys Excel program	Surveys will be analyzed to determine levels of financial education and compare student and adult responses.
A second survey will be distributed  to parents and teachers only.  The second survey will determine levels of financial instruction provided by parents for their children.	Myself	Will send surveys out in January 2013 and will request return within 2 weeks to analyze.	Surveys Excel program	Surveys will be analyzed to determine level of financial instruction provided by parents for their children.
Teachers will administer a written pre- test to students that participate in all three business department classes. There will be an approximate total of 150 students involved in the testing.	Teachers in the school, principal, curriculum director.	Pre-tests will be given the first week of January 2013 and collected that day. Tests will be graded and results will be saved to be compare with the post-tests to be administered at the conclusion of financial curriculum instruction.	Testing material for 150 students, teachers to help give tests to students, principal and curriculum director will help analyze data when returned.	I will grade the pre-tests and assign a percentage of correct answers to each test. I will then create a table with the percentages of each test taken.
Teachers will teach the financial curriculum that is required of business teachers, they will attend a marketing and finance event called “Marketplace”, and will request speakers to talk to students about financial literacy.	Business  teachers (including FCS taught classes that teach Dollars and Sense), all students involved in Marketplace event, principal, curriculum director, special education teachers.	Research will start in January 2013 at the beginning of the 2nd semester and will conclude at the end of the semester. The research may continue through the first semester of following year in order to increase research validity.	Financial curriculum	Students will be evaluated throughout the semester by their grades during the second semester and the post-test assessment.
The final step in the research process will be to administer a post-test to the students that have received instruction in the financial curriculum.  The test data will be compared to the  data obtained from the pre-test given at the beginning of the semester. A comparison will also be made to review the scores of students who did not participate in the financial curriculum to those that did .  Based on the results collected, it will be determined if students are financially educated and determine if the selected financial curriculum had an impact on student financial literacy.	Teachers Principal Curriculum Director	The post-test will be administered to students at the end of the semester in May 2013. If the research continues during the following school year,  another post-test will be administered at the end of the first semester in December 2013.	Financial literacy post-test Excel Program	All data will be evaluated and  a conclusion will be determined if what students are taught in  business classes about financial literacy is sufficient to prepare them for post high school financial decisions. Data  will also be evaluated to determine what students learn outside of school from parents, grandparents, or other sources of information.