Data Collection Plan

Intervention Plan: Each week, I plan to introduce a new social skill during a 10-15
minute class meeting time. During class meetings we will use different greetings, group
games, songs, or other group participation activities to implement and practice the social
skills. At the current time, the social skills I hope to teach include: greetings, gestures and
eye contact, manners, complimenting others, taking turns, sharing materials, active
listening, and how to resolve conflicts.

Research Question/Topic: What happens when class meetings are implemented in an

Extended Day Kindergarten setting? What is the impact, if any, on social interactions and
peer relationships?

Data Source Timeline/Plan for Intended Adaptations/Changes

Collection Learning/Purpose made during Data
Collection Period
Professional Literature Ongoing search for Through the
and use of literature, I intend to
professional literature learn about my topic,
to inform my work and whats current in
throughout the the field. I also plan to
semester. 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:
Responsive Classroom
approach, social
curriculum, and
character education.
Parent Survey Week 1 of data I hope to survey parents I decided to send my
collection in order to find out their parent survey
childs level of electronically via
involvement, if any, in Qualtrics in order to
social circle such as make it more
church groups, peer convenient for the
groups, whether they parents as well as to
have older/younger keep responses
siblings, etc. This will anonymous. All of my
help me to gauge how original plans for this
 many students have survey process and
opportunities for social data collection
interaction outside of remained the same.
school and
approximately how
much, or how little.

I will also ask for

feedback from parents
regarding what social
skills theyd like their
child to learn or use a
likert scale rating to see
their views on how
adept their child is in
particular social skills
that will be taught via
morning meeting.
These surveys will also
be used to gather
demographic
information from
parents.
Classroom Observation Ongoing throughout I will observe students During the first two
6-8 week data in the classroom and weeks of data
collection record anecdotals in collection I used a
order to see if more anecdotal form
children are able to to try and record
apply social skills observations of my
used in our meeting students during class
during their everyday meetings as well as
peer interaction. I will informally during
also observe whether class time and/or
or not there is any lunch and recess as
language carry over they interacted with
from our morning their peers. After
meetings that theyre trying to put this in
able to use themselves place for two weeks, I
throughout the school decided it wasnt user
day. friendly or quick
enough.

I adapted my forms
and made them more
of a checklist for the
social skills so that I
 could see week-by-
week which children
were applying skills
that had been covered.
For my own
observation while
leading our morning
meetings, I created a
tally sheet to
document how many
prompts students
needed from me to
complete the
presented social skill
during an activity.
Student Interview Occuring week 3-8 of I hope to use a child-
data collection friendly questionnaire
with the students to
(Once at beg. of week see how they feel
4 and end of week 6) about their knowledge
of the following social
skills: greetings,
gestures and eye
contact, manners,
complimenting others,
taking turns, sharing
materials, active
listening, and how to
resolve conflicts.

To make this child

friendly, I would
orally ask the
questions in a 1:1
interview with
children and have
them color either a
smile, straight face, or
sad face, to indicate
their feelings on each
topic.

I may include some

open-ended questions
to determine if they
 can define or describe
what a friend is, how
they know, and
possibly ask them to
tell me how theyd
handle certain
situations.
Informal Colleague Occuring week 3-8 of Since the students
Interview data collection that attend EDK also
attend a regular K
classroom, Id like to
interview the other K
teachers to determine
whether they see any
carryover of social
skills from students in
the regular K
classroom or use of
language established
during morning
meetings in EDK

Teacher interviews
may occur more than
once over this period
of time, as needed
Parent Feedback End of 6-8 week data After completing data
Questionnaire collection collection during the
6-8 weeks I hope to
send a follow-up
questionnaire using
likert scale questions
to gain parent
feedback on whether
they saw any changes
in social skills in their
child