Chapter 1: What is action research?
The Action Research Process:
1. Selecting a focus: “What element/s of our practice or what aspect of student learning do we wish to investigate?”
2. Clarifying theories: “What values, beliefs and theoretical perspectives the researchers hold relating to their focus?”
3. Identifying research questions: “Let’s generate personally relevant questions to guide our inquiry”
4. Collecting data: “what data do we have that will support that our actions are valid and reliable”
5. Analyzing data: “what is the story told by this data, why did the story play itself out this way?”
6. Reporting results
7. Taking informed action
How is action research accomplished?
• Step 1: Find a focus
o Strategy 1: The Reflective Journal
o Strategy 2: The Reflective Interview
o Strategy 3: Analytic Discourse
• Step 2: Clarifying Theories
o The Priority Pie
o Graphic Representation
