Question+7


 * 7.** **Evaluation Criterion:** The project will generate evidence related to its impact and effectiveness.

Explain, within 300-400 words for tier 1 or 600-700 words for tiers 2 and 3, how your project meets this criterion. * The adventure project is based on finding out what works and what does not. In the past, small individual activities have received anecdotal evidence tainted by personal philosophy. Within the province, there is little consideration to what the evidence shows and while we would like to learn from others, we would rather be evidence gatherers and interpreters ourselves. We will create a professional learning community that involves members from the high school settings who are teaching the program as well as faculty from local universities. There is the possibility that members from other faculties in North America will participate. This will allow us to efficiently learn from each other, bounce ideas of each other, and evaluate our philosophies that led to the practices. Our plans for a more formal study will allow us to publish in a peer review professional journal. To increase the research to a quality that would be publishable, a number of steps must be taken. We plan to use an industry standard test for strength of character, self esteem and other character traits. One such test might be the Peirce Test. Allowing the students to take this test at the onset of the course, then again at 3 weeks, and three months will allow us to gain some kind of insight into the longevity of the effects of the program. We will also track the academic standing of the students which would include attendance, office discipline referrals and grades. We will spend this year tracking as similar pool of students in order to create a baseline of data. Once the facility is up and running, we will be able to start out collection of experimental data. Beyond publishing in peer reviewed professional journal, we will also present our findings locally at the next 2 high school councils. Our plan would be to offer a full day of workshops to show off our facility and introduce our vision in an attempt to gain participation from other districts. After a year, we would then present out new findings to the provincial body of teachers so that they may duplicate such an activity.