Preparation

Dr. Bowers-Campbell has approved my documents and now I am waiting for them to be approved by the IRB. I submitted my materials Wednesday and I am really anxious to get started with the research. I have identified my focal group of students I will be using and have located my two surveys that I will use at the beginning, middle, and end of my research for quantitative data. Below is a brief description of each survey and a link to the actual survey.

Elementary Reading Attitude Survey
http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/printables/pdfs/reading/readingsurvey.pdf
This survey is designed to measure students' attitudes toward reading. It is very student friendly, as it has pictures of Garfield for them to choose from when answering the statements. There are twenty statements and students choose the Garfield that describes how the statement makes them feel. Once students have answered, there is a scoring sheet that totals students' attitudes for recreational and academic reading.

Writing Attitude Survey
http://literacyreferencelem.pbworks.com/f/Writing+Attitude+Survey.pdf
This survey is very similar to the reading survey mentioned above, except it measures students' attitudes toward writing. Again, there are twenty statements about writing and the students choose the Garfield that describes how the statement makes them feel.

Now, I am just waiting to hear from the IRB, so I can get my permission forms out to students and parents and then begin using these surveys to collect my beginning quantitative data!