Purpose and Significance for two research proposals

Purposes:
1. Per last week’s activities, I am very interested in parental involvement at my campus. The purpose of this research would be to find out reasons behind the lack of participation in family nights and ways to improve the turn outs. The goal of this research is to increase student achievement by involving the parents in their child’s education.
2. During this week’s reading, I have become very interested in teacher burn-out at various levels in their careers, and thus leading to a lack of motivation. The purpose of this research is to identify reasons teachers become burned out and ways to specifically increase motivation on my campus. The goal of this research is to also increase student achievement by motivating the teachers. I am most interested in this research proposal.

Significance:
1. The stakeholders benefitting from this action research are:
· The students: having their parents involved in their education will improve their achievement.
· The parents: focusing on the reasons behind why they are reluctant to participate and finding ways to “fix” these reasons, will allow them to attend school academic activities.
· The teachers: parental support at home will assist the teachers in the education of the students.
· The campus and district: increasing student achievement will raise the testing scores and increase AYP, for the school and district.
2. The stakeholders benefitting from this research are:
· The students: there is a direct correlation between teacher motivation and student motivation. Increasing the teacher’s will only increase the student’s and make learning more enjoyable for both.
· The teachers: in addition to the benefits listed for students, motivated teachers improve the morale of the campus.
· The campus and the district: when teachers and students are motivated, student achievement will rise.