presentation for educational assistance for the people

2. Outline
 What is action research?
 When Do You Use Action Research?
 Types Of Action Research
 The Key Characteristics Of Action Research
 Ethical Issues in Action Research
 Steps In Conducting An Action Research Study
 How Do You Evaluate An Action Research Study?

3. What is action research?
• Action research designs are systematic procedures done by teachers (or
other individuals in an educational setting) to gather information about, and
subsequent to improve, the ways their particular educational setting
operates, their teaching and their student learning (Mills, 2011).
• Action research in education is any systematic inquiry conducted by
teachers, principals, school counselors, or other stakeholders in the
teaching– learning environment that involves gathering information about
the ways in which their particular schools operate, the teachers teach, and
the students learn.

4. When Do You Use Action Research?
• When you have an educational problem to solve
• When educators want to reflect on their own practices
• When you want to address school wide problems
• When teacher want to improve their practices
• When educators want to participate in a research project

5. Types Of Action Research Designs
Practical
• Studying local practices
• Involving individual or team-
based inquiry
• Focusing on teacher
development and student
learning
• Implementing a plan of action
• Leading to the teacher as-
Researcher
Participatory
• Studying social issues that
constrain individual lives
• Emphasizing “equal”
collaboration
• Focusing on “life-enhancing”
changes
• Resulting in the emancipated
researcher

6. Characteristics Of Action Research
• A practical focus
• The educator–researcher’s own practices
• Collaboration
• A dynamic process
• A plan of action
• Sharing research

7. Ethical Issues in Action Research
• The action researcher needs to conduct the inquiry in a way that respects
the care of the participants.
• Involves them collaboratively in all phases of the research.
• It is also important for participants to have the option to withdraw from the
study.

8. Steps In An Action Research Study
• Determine if Action Research Is the Best Design to Use
• Identify a Problem to Study
• Locate Resources to Help Address the Problem
• Identify Information You Will Need
• Implement the Data Collection
• Analyze the Data
• Develop a Plan for Action
• Implement the Plan and Reflect

9. Action research process

10. Evaluation of An Action Research Study
• Focuses on an issue in practice or an issue in the local community.
• Collects multiple sources of data (often quantitative and qualitative)
to help address the problem.
• Collaborates with others during the study to find the best solutions.
• Shows respect for all collaborators so they are equal partners in the
action research process.
• Advances a plan of action for trying to solve the problem.

11. •Reflects on his/her own development as a professional.
•Helps to enhance the lives of participants by solving a
problem, empowering them, changing them, or providing
them with new understandings.
•Develops a plan recommending changes to practice.
•Reports the research in a way that is understandable and
useful to audiences, including other professionals.

12. References
• Cresswell, j.w (2012). Educational research
planning, conducting and evaluating
quantitative and qualitative research
• Gay, Mills and airasian (2012). Educational
research competencies for analysis and
applications