Methodology

Design 

• I developed a survey with the internet software "Survey Monkey".  I then introduced the survey in a faculty meeting.  I told them about the survey on Accelerated Reader and I asked them to participate.  I sent a link to the survey via email to all certified faculty at the school. I had to send out one reminder email requesting their help.  Sixty Eight people responded to the survey. 

Participants

• I recruited the participants of my survey by asking for their participation at a faculty meeting.  I insured confidentiality of their responses.  I also told them the survey would take about 5 - 10 minutes.
• All kindergarten - 5th grade regular education and special education teachers were asked to participate.
• Sixty eight people responded to the survey. 

Data Collection Story

• I developed the survey with the internet software "Survey Monkey".  I developed the questions for the survey from the research literature I found regarding Accelerated Reader.  Seventeen of the questions I developed were Likert scale questions.  Two of the questions were open-ended. I also wrote what I was going to say in my introduction to the survey at the faculty meeting.    

Data Source

• The data source was the survey results.  

Analysis

• I got the results from my survey on Survey Monkey.  I downloaded the data into an excel file and made new graphs to represent each survey question.  I also organized the open-ended responses by sorting each response into categories:  positive AR, negative AR, neither positive nor negative AR, or both positive and negative AR.  I made a graph of the open-ended responses.  I analyzed all of the results by looking at the highest percentage answers.  Dependant on the question, I also looked at the 2 highest percentage answers and comments that correlated with certain questions.