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 * Already heard from Erica. 100% on the Power point!!!** Only annoying part is it's only worth 20 points, and that power point too like 5 hours! (Casey)

7/31 Congratulations girls that are graduating!!! You did it! Thank you to the group it was a good experience __#|working__ with you all :) (Rhonda) 7/30 ( Lisa ) Final Research __#|Paper__ has been emailed to ERIKA :):):)

(Lisa) Casey, Powerpoint Looks Great!!!!! Thanks for your hard __#|work__.
 * 7/31- Presentation is sent and posted!! Now all we have to do is apparently critique someone else's (lame) and we're DONE and DONE!!! Casey**

Rhonda your slide was in preview mode only, but I went through mine and made all necessary changes. Question one was on the slides, but since you had a hard time finding it I put numbers to it so there's no confusion. It was still named the same since I just changed it on my computer, so just look for the one that was updated today. I'm planning on sending it this afternoon.

I changed some spelling and spacing issues I renamed it it but its not showing up so please take a look...I also couldn't see question one on any slides...?? Casey please double check .... (Rhonda) Looks great Casey! Just a few minor tweaks: Title page: Katie's name is misspelled, Slide 1 (typo)- seem to //**be**// the major reason...slide 2(typo)- what elements //**or**// aspects of a 2nd grade...(Amanda)

7.30- __#|POWER POINT__ IS DONE!! I'm crossed eyed from looking at a screen all day, but it's done and in the pages section. Let me know if I need to change anything. Otherwise I'm sending to Erica tomorrow afternoon!

7/30- __**Final copy # 8**__ has been uploaded. I had to make a quick change to Spanish norms. Please __proof__ this most recent copy!! (Amanda)

7/30- Okay, so I went through the most recent copy and edited it for spacing/justification... I also fixed up a few tables and added the rest of the appendices. It is now. I am giving the //__**GO AHEAD**__// to send to Erika- but everyone else PLEASE look through it and okay it as well. I think Lisa is sending the final copy?? Can you let us know when you do? (Katie)

7/30 Looks great group!!! Let me know if anyone needs any final __#|help__ before the big turn in! (Rhonda)

7/29 (Lisa) Okay group, I uploaded the 5 graphs I created as a document because I do not know if they are necessary for the paper... I'm gonna leave that up to you guys to decide :) **Casey, I think you were right about how they seem __#|best__ suited for the ppt.** Please let me know if I missed anything.

7/29 I have completed the introduction and conclusion paragraphs. I have uploaded the new document as __**Final copy #5.**__ I think as I added to the paper there became a few spacing errors. I figured once the paper is fully complete we can go back and correct all spacing adjustments. (Amanda)

7/29 (lisa) Amanda, I will have the charts/graphs done by tonight. I will upload them on here as a word doc and also add to paper ---> Group, are we placing all charts in the appendices or are we including any as samples within the paper??? Thanks for the final breakdown Katie, I will also be sure to add the letter of consent.

7/29- I have completed the Discussion section of the paper and uploaded it to the wiki- it is now the. I also went through the headings to make them consistent with bolding/italics and spacing. It looks like we just need to add a short introduction paragraph and conclusion paragraph [//__**Amanda**__// is signed up for that] and the appendices [//__**Rhonda**__// will need to add her typed field note documents/transcribed documents/coding key and __//**Lisa**//__ will add the letter of consent] [**__//Casey//__** can begin/finish the powerpoint presentation as well.] (Katie)

7/28- I will be __#|working__ on the discussion section tonight and will have it finished and uploaded sometime tomorrow...! Woo we are getting so close! (Katie)

7/28 I just uploaded the reference page ( I cut & pasted it from the proposal) I didn't hear back so I assume they were the only ones used :) (Rhonda) 7/28 I have uploaded the paper including results in pages and files called "research proposal final copy 2." Please let me know any feedback and what needs to be changed or added. Thanks! (Amanda)


 * FYI All qualitative data has been analysed and sent to Amanda! Charts were done for __#|student__ responses to __#|survey__ questions to answer our question on student response to summer __#|school__ (Casey)**

7/27 I posted our discussion response for the week. (Amanda)


 * Do you need me to look up the norms to help the quantitative people answer question number 7??? Or does someone already have that data. I have access to it if we need it! (Casey)**

7/27- (Katie) I have uploaded the today for the paper. Amanda will be writing the results section and Lisa will need to make graphs or some kind of visual to represent the data. I have also emailed the learning contract to Erika. I know most of the sections of the paper are due by 7/31, so we will need to be emailing the info ASAP so the next person can write their piece.

7/27 I have just uploaded the observation sheet with the color coded key ....it is under observation 1 document! :) 7/27 I have rec'd word from Erika that the transcription page and key page are good to go...she wanted to remind us about doing the SPSS/Excel sheet charts who is doing that?


 * 7/27 Whoever is analyzing the QUANTITATIVEdata would be doing the SPSS. I am analysis the QUALITATIVE data and was going to do a chart based on student responses to answer their feelings towards summer __#|school__ question, but other than that, not really sure how to make a relevant graph for qualitative (Casey) **

I believe Lisa and Casey will be __#|working__ on putting graphs together and then I will take those graphs and write the results section. (Amanda)

7/26 I have posted my transcription of interviews...please review it & let me know if it is ok...thanks Rhonda

7-26 (Rhonda) Who has __#|student__ #|surveys? I would like them so over the next few days I can transcribe them please :) 7-26-(Rhonda) Who is doing discussion question for this week? We just need one to respond & answer.. 7/25- I have uploaded field notes labeled "observations" under pages and files. (Amanda)

7/25- (Katie) since I have the __#|surveys__, Rhonda what is the best way to get them to u? Are you able to meet somewhere to pass them off? I have the __#|teacher__ __#|surveys__ and __#|student__ __#|surveys__. I also have the pre-summer __#|school__ data, but we weren't planning on doing post data until next Thursday- do u guys think that will bea enough time? I can try to do some next mon or tues if that's easier... who needs the quantitative data?

Katie...The results section is due by next tues the 31st so if you could get me post data by Monday that would be helpful.Thanks! (Amanda)

Also, I asked Erika and she would like us to send her a final copy of our learning contract. I will send it, but CAN EVERYONE PLEASE FILL IN THE COMPLETE LEARNING CONTRACT (dates) FOR THE TASKS YOU ARE COMPLETING BY SATURDAY. That way I can submit it to Erika.

7/25 (Lisa) Yes, you can create a word document and then upload it on here or email it to our group as an attachment. There are some helpful tips in the week 5 resources from Erika including the categorizing and coding data document. I would download a copy of the __#|survey__ from here and then list all of the answers for each question as you look through the __#|surveys__. Then go back and highlight patterns that you see within that... hope this helps.

7/25 (Rhonda) I have never done this before so I will follow that advice and have you preview it and make changes if needed. Do I just write it and save it as a word document? I have not taken the year long instruction class that is next year... 7/24 (Lisa) Rhonda, if you need help transcribing, I am happy to help. Let's just make sure that we make the transcriptions as useful as possible by following Erika's advice: "This will consist of transcribing your data from interviews individually and groups verbatim. You will list all group members' participant responses together grouped by __#|interview questions__ and begin to underline re-occurring themes that emerge in those answers. You should choose codes as a group and sub-codes as you look at these responses to each question and format a list of codes you see as significant among your respondents' responses..."

7/24 (Lisa) Casey, yes I am analyzing the qualitative data as well. Maybe once we get it we can talk about how we want to break it up to share the __#|work__?

7/24- I completed a citation page attached to the proposal.Rhonda, you will be able to find references listed there. (Amanda)

7/23-(Rhonda) I am down to transcribe data... I also would like everyone to send me their references used thus far for the citations page.. email is fine.

7/20- I have posted discussion question #3: article response to the blackboard. I also have collected 14/15 __#|student__ __#|surveys__ and 6 __#|teacher__ __#|surveys__. I have student quantitative data as well. I will conduct some interviews with the __#|students__ next week as well. Who do I need to get all the data to? I don't know what the best way to do that would be, but I can try to type it up or something... (Katie)

7/23- (Casey) I'm analyzing the qualitative data, so if I can get that info that'd be great :) I think it said on the page Lisa is helping me too, is that right Lis? Also, Rhonda, my sources are uploaded on the wiki so you can get my references there.

7/20 (Lisa) Consent Letter is updated and ready to be placed in appendix of paper. I uploaded the new one in place of where the unedited one was.

7/19 - (Lisa) I posted the number 2 discussion post to blackboard FYI

7-18-So far I have collected five __#|teacher__ __#|surveys__ out of eight... I think that since our research focuses a little more on students and student impact, the teacher __#|survey__ works for our qualitative data. I think we have gotten good answrss, and i can always follow up and interview if we want additional information. Just let me know- the summer __#|school__ teachers all seemed more than willing to help.

My __#|work__ __#|computer__ still doesn't let me use the "1, q, a, or z" keys, socan haven't been able to fix the formatting on the student __#|survey__. I am just going to try to fix it here and convert to a PDF. I will have those completed tomorrow so we can begin to look at data. I will also copy initial data for our students and their incoming summer data (what we used to pick them in the first place). (Katie)

7.17- UPDATE - Ok, apparently for question number 1 you only do parts 1 or 2. Since I did the last 2 discussions for our group, Rhonda, do you mind doing question 1? (Casey)

Also Katie, when you passed out the __#|teacher__ surveys, did you see the suggestions that Erika gave us? She thought we should do it on survey monkey and she didn't think we'd get the answers we needed by some of the open ended questions. I didn't repost the questions because I was waiting to hear from Erika on her suggestion. I guess if the teacher's return it by Thursday, we can see the responses we get and if we need to ask more questions/redistribute, we can do that, right? 7/17 I couldn't find the lit review to edit my name...is it here ? Lisa had said to edit it..? Let me know if I need to get glasses...

7/18 (Lisa) Rhonda, it wasn't in the lit review. It was in the consent letter that I uploaded as part of my discussion on the discussion page.

7/16- yes, I meant to __sign up__ for part one! My computer wasn't working this morning and I was distracted. Is it okay if I still do question three, part one as I have already started it... Also, I printed off the teacher surveys and distributed them today... I gave teachers until Thursday to get them back to me. I downloaded the student __survey__, but the formatting is all off, so I have to play around with it to give it to the kids. But my work computer keyboard is weird so I'll see what I can do! (Katie)

7/16- ok, I may be an idiot. .but I'm confused on what people are doing. Katie and Amanda, did you __#|sign up__ for the same part and question? I'll do question number 3, part 1- Making Words Count. (Casey)

7/6- I will work on #3 pt. 1 tried to print off the __surveys__ to distribute but the formting is off... I will try to fix it while t school & will distribute tomorrow (Ktie- ... ps. my "eh" button is not working... :) 7/15 I will work on Question # 3, part 2 (researching human subjects)-Amanda 7/15 (Lisa) Great idea Amanda! I'll take question number 2 :)

7/14 Girls...I updated the discussion questions page by posting the week 4 discussion questions. I was thinking since there are a total of 5 questions (well really 3, but #1&3 are made up of two separate questions) we could each take one to make it a bit easier to answer all of them. What do you think?? I will also be out of town Mon-Thurs but will have computer access so I will be available as much as possible. :) (Amanda)

7/14 (lisa) Amanda, thanks! Yeah, lets add those two references to the proposal as I did reference them within the literature review! Thanks for offering to submit as well.

7/14 Lisa... Lit review looks great! When everyone gives approval to the complete proposal I will go ahead and send off to Erika. :) I looked to try and figure out how to cite these sources. I cited them as reference works below. I am not sure if that is even close to being correct, but I figured it was the only thing that made somewhat sense. Do these sources need to be referenced in the proposal or is this just for future use? Let me know and I will add them to the reference page. Thanks! (Amanda)

Terzlan, M., Moore, K., & Hamilton, K. (2009). Effective and promising summer learning programs and approaches for economically-disadvantaged children and youth. In Child Trends (1 ed.). Retrieved from http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/summer-and-extended-learning-time/summer-learning/Documents/Effective-and-Promising-Summer-Learning-Programs.pdf

Smith, M., & Brewer, D. (2007). Stop summer academic loss:an education policy priority. In MetaMetrics (1 ed.). Retrieved from http://lexile.com/m/uploads/whitepapers/StopSummerAcademicLoss_MetaMetricsWhitepaper.pdf

7-13 (Lisa) Not sure if you guys know they answers, but these two resources I found are rich with information on our topic, I'm just not sure how to cite them as they are not journals. Please take a look and let me know what you think :)

http://lexile.com/m/uploads/whitepapers/StopSummerAcademicLoss_MetaMetricsWhitepaper.pdf

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/summer-and-extended-learning-time/summer-learning/Documents/Effective-and-Promising-Summer-Learning-Programs.pdf

7-13 (Lisa) Hey guys! I have imbedded the literature review within the proposal and you should see it uploaded on the pages and files. Please feel free to read it over and make any changes that you see necessary. I referenced the examples that Erika had provided for us so I'm hoping it's pretty close to what she expects. Please let me know what you think :)

7-12 (Rhonda) I have posted the 2 new articles and 2 review/summaries of the articles for the lit review. I will be out of town from Friday-Saturday noon. I will have email available if anyone has any questions. Thanks :) 7-12 (Lisa) Hi Guys, Rhonda chose new sources and is getting them to me some time today, so the lit rev. will be posted soon for review :)

7/12 (Casey)- Based on Erika's feedback I updated the teacher __survey__. I'm going to wait to post it though until she gives us the ok for this survey. :)

7/11- (Lisa) Rhonda, I'm wondering if there is any way that you can pick out the pieces that you found most useful/relevant in the articles that you uploaded on July 5? When I try to convert the docx to a .doc on my Mac, it says I do not have enough disk space to do so?? Weird. Not sure how long they are or if you can save them as a .doc and then re-upload them?

7/11 - (Lisa) Hey guys, I hope I located all the research here on the wiki, I am working on the lit review right now, so it will be complete soon to put in the proposal. Katie- if you would like me to come in to your classroom to administer the __surveys__ or help with anything else, let me know. I will be done with curriculum writing next week, so will be free to come in. I also have some data from my own summer school class, but what do you think about meshing them together? Should we just focus on yours Katie? Also, when should we start handing out surveys at other random places now that it is almost finalized?

7/11- I just uploaded the proposal on the pages and files page for you guys to review. It still needs to include the lit review, which Lisa is currently working on, after purpose of study and before research questions. Please let me know what you think needs to be changed or added. I am not sure I did the references correctly so let me know. Thanks! (Amanda)

Also, both __teacher__ and student surveys look good Casey. You had strong questions on the teacher survey!

7/11- The summer school program I am teaching is paid for with Title 3 (bilingual) funds. We target bilingual, low SES students. I have been looking for anything related to the benefits of summer school, summer loss, summer school programs, etc. I agree that we should survey the students, but we can also survey the teachers... If you guys want, we can survey more of the students (other __classes__ too) or just stick with my group... The survey you made, Casey, looks good. I like that it is kid friendly :) whenever we finalize the survey I will print and give to the kiddos. (Katie)

7/11- I was going to put Title 3 and them I second guessed myself and it said it was something else on line. Stoopy :) Anyway, the teacher survey is at the bottom on there too if you guys want to take a look and let me know what you want me to tweak/add/take out.

7/9 Just wanted to get clarification .... research is on summer __school programs__, if it has postitve effect on elementary students..? Now it is bi-lingual too? I am just trying to get more tuned in research articles? Did anyone read those others? Rhonda

7/11 (Lisa) I found research as well that supports that summer school is especially crucial for at-risk students who are more likely to be below target at each grade level. I think the closer we can hone in on summer school for bilingual students within our research, the better.

Rhonda- our district's summer school programs are only aimed at bilingual students at this time because it's funded by Title 7 money (right Katie?) The research I found actually showed that summer school should be aimed at bilingual students because when it is offered to all students the gap between bilingual/low SES and the other kids gets bigger. (Casey)


 * I posted the student and teacher survey in the pages link. Let me know if you want me to add/change anything! (Casey) **

7/9- thought this would be easier to see :)). Am I making a __survey__ for just __#|students__ or did we decide we're doing a survey for parents also? I feel like some of the questions would be more reliable from parents (does your child do any other summer school? (better worded, it's early :))) What is your child's demeanor in the morning? etc. So, should I make 2 surveys? Just making sure we're on the same page!

7/9- I would think it might be best to just do a survey for students. The summer school program is comprised of bilingual students (at least that is the program at TJ, please correct me if I am wrong!!!) so I am not sure we would get a huge response from parents and I think the survey would have to be translated into Spanish. Maybe instead of a parent survey, we could do a __teacher__ survey and their perceptions of summer school??? It might be easier to get data that way. Thoughts? (Amanda)

F 6/28- Hi Everyone! This is our wikispace page for our team for the summer course. On the left hand side you can navigate to additional pages and files. Please find the "Learning Contract" page and fill in the sections you want to complete.

We can also use this homepage as a way to communicate. Simply add "Update (date)" and write your message. I would imagine we can __continue__ to use blackboard as well! :)

//*I __signed up__ for certain things with the learning contract, but I am willing to change as needed. I was was trying to __sign up__ for one red, orange, purple, and green component, but I thought it might be easier for me to hand out the __surveys__ and conduct interviews since we are using students in my summer __school class__. Let me know and I can move to something else! :)//

6/29-

1st, Katie you are amazing for doing this :) Thanks! Also, if the lit review is due 7/15, when do we want everyone to have their research done by? Is this something we maybe want to do together since we're all pooling our sources? I'm also thinking since this is the intro and the basis of our paper it may be easiest to do this together so that we're all on the same page. Just a thought, we don't have to :)

Katie... This looks good, thank you for creating this. I would be happy to be placed in any categories needed. I didn't want to write all four since I was the second person to fill it out. I don't remember where you said to put my name in...?? Please let me know and I will put myself there

7-3 Rhonda...I saw you __signed up__ for the purpose statement. I wrote a rough one and posted it in red on the discussion page a few days ago, thinking it was something we were to post as a group. Here it is below: Feel free to change or tweak as needed, just trying to help so you do not have to do the same thing twice. :)(Amanda)

7-1 (Amanda)- Possible Problem Statement The summer slide is an inevitable occurrence that all teachers must overcome. The RAND corporation found that elementary students performance falls by about a month during the summer, but is far worse for low income students. This creates a cumulative loss that greatly increases over time. It costs more than $1,500 per student per year to re-teach forgotten material and is one of the great obstacles to reading proficiency. Knowing this staggering information, it is our goal to determine if a 4 week intensive, elementary summer __school program__ increases student achievement and creates motivated, student leaders to help combat the summer slide. (It looks like we just have to post this to a discussion question, is that correct?)

7/2- Hey guys! In the pages you'll see the research I have found so far. I thought I would post it on there for you guys to see so we all don't use the same sources :) (Casey)

7/3- You guys are awesome! I have been trying to get Lisa to join the wiki, but for some reason she can't... I will keep sending her invites and see when she can join! Also, I looked at your resources, Casey- the one .wps document I could not open. The other- it is not the actual article but the abstract correct? Or is that the entire source? What is there is great but I didn't know if there was more.. (Katie)

7/4- HEY GUYS!!! I MADE IT! I'M FINALLY HERE! Thanks to Max at the Wiki Help Desk :) Casey, great idea on uploading sources as to not replicate!

Good morning! I am looking & researching articles... I have posted a few please let me know, I will have back up if you don't think they will be enough. :)

Thanks for doing that, Amanda! Problem Statement looks great!

7/5- Hi Girls! I went ahead and posted our problem statement on blackboard for Erika since everyone seemed to be okay with it...so discussion question number 1 is complete. :) (Amanda)

7/6- I saw that Amanda, Thanks!!! Katie that's just the information in the article that I found relevant. I read the articles they were in and found what would be pertinent to our topic. Hope that works for everyone! That's usually what I do instead of notecards. Also, I made the document in word processor but saved it in both word and .wps, so posted both.

7/6- thanks for posting that Amanda. I was looking at the learningcontract and I'm not sure why we don't have everything filled out... We all need to sign up for four-five tasks. There are still a lot of open slots and I think Lisas till needs to sign up... Can everyone check what they are doing and make sure we have the entire contract filled out?

7/6 (Lisa) I signed up for my 5 :) Wasn't able to sign on the first few days :/

7/6 (Casey) So our literature review is due the 15th. I just texted Lisa to get on here and sign up for her parts so we can see if anything is still open. As I said, I put the literature on here already. FYI I'm going to be gone Thursday the 12th (evening) until Sunday the 15th, so if we can get this figured out (at least who's doing it and if we need more information) asap that'd be great :)

I know, I'm doing homework on Friday night. Awesome! hahaha, at least I'm babysitting :) Anyway, I saw the articles that were posted (at least article 1). Are we thinking of including "money cost" as a part of summer school? Also, I saw the source was the Columbia Daily Tribune and I wasn't sure if this would count as a source. Did she say what kind they need to be? I feel like in the past we've had to use research journals or published research articles... just checking. (Casey)

7/7- I noticed that the lit review is the last assignment to be filled. Rhonda, would that be something you would be interested in completing ?