ACTION RESEARCH

• Create a team that will participate in additional professional development in order to

• scaffold and facilitate teachers as they conduct action research. This team can be

• made up of resource teachers, subject/grade level chairpersons, district staff, state

• agency representatives, and/or university professors.

• Investigate and disseminate information on conferences, seminars, and resources to

• enhance the continued learning and support of the established instructional initiatives.

• Review action plans in the school improvement plan to align action research to ensure

• that resources will be available.

• Develop a calendar of dates • • In the staff newsletters, assign a section

to communicate action research tips to • consider, questions and answers, testimonials,

examples, resources, and grant • information.

• The Action Research Network is a tool designed for teachers in the field as well as students pursuing a degree in education. This tool enables researchers (the teachers) to share their research and view the findings of others.

• This is done by providing an online template that the researchers fill in to help them record information about various aspects of their research. Thus a researcher can describe all aspects of his or her action research project, take notes and keep them all in one place, upload their research instruments and data, make a first draft of their final paper and bibliography (if doing this for a class), and share this information with others of their choice (e.g., the public, their professor, outside reviewers, someone at their school).

• Those who are interested in the research done by others will be able to search using grade level, student achievement, type of research, type of intervention, subject matter, etc. as search terms. This makes it easy for a teacher or professor to locate projects that are of particular interest or which illustrate a particular aspect of teaching.

• This tool is also helpful to professors of education who have assigned an action research project to their students. Professors can set up a class and have all students simply enter a code to provide the professor with access to their project as it is being completed. The student is able to specify which sections of the research report are ready to be reviewed. The professor can then review these sections online and provide comments through a message system internal to the tool. Similarly, students can communicate about the project with their professor.

• For those schools which prefer to have multiple reviewers of the project, the Action Research tool allows guest reviewers to also be included in the process of project review and revision. The results of these reviews are available to the primary professor (if any has been specified) and the student.

REVISION

What is action research???systematic inquiry, made public with detailed

records.self reflective enquiry, undertaken by

participants in social setting in order to improve practices or situations.

- dynamic, systematic process of self-inquiry and action carried out to allow you room for improvement.

• Educational action research:• carried out in education setting in form of

reflective inquiry to improve the understanding of practices and situations in your school and classroom.

Purposes:• integrate teaching with research• improve effectiveness of practice• bridge expectation and performance gap• to develop personal and professional

development• to reflect on teaching• to realise educational values

• The basic steps of action research:• 1. review of current practice• 2.reflect on issue/problem• 3. identify aspect to improve• 4. explore ways to improve• 5. Plan your action• 6. Monitor your action• 7. evaluate your action• 8. continue on your improments

• Element to be included in your research abstract:• 1. Research design• 2. Research purpose• 3. research location• 4. research objectives• 5. research participants• 6. methods of data collection• 7. research implementation• 8. Research fndings• 9. Conclusions• 10. Recommendations

• Problem statement:

• 1. identify the gaps, shortcoming and limitations that define the probem

• 2. provide evidence to define the problem• 3. suggest reasons for the problem• 4. suggest what you have done to identify the

problem• 5. Consider how it would be severe if not overcome.• 6. imagine if this problem does not exist• 7. Rationalize your interest

• Literature review:• historical background• give an overview of issues, debates that

anchor your research• terms and definitions• related research and address a gap

• Sources of literature review:• books• journals• websites• gov publication, documents• proceedings of seminars, conferences• theses and dissertations

• Plagiarism:• practice of using another's work, thoughts or

ideas purposefully or unknowingly without giving proper acknowledgement.

• DO DONT

• AR procedure• 1. reflection• 2. issues/problem• 3. research question/research objectives• 4. plan an action• 5. implement• 6. collect data• 7. monitor the action• 8. interprete data• 9. ways to improve

• Quantitative and qualitative data:• Ways to analyse data:• transcribe, analyse, code,process, quantitative

analyses, triangulate, interprete