The
focus of this action research was to use collaborative inquiry groups to change teacher practice to become more autonomy supportive in order to increase student engagement in the classroom.
According to the results
of an action research study on Adopting a Blended Learning Approach at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, blended approach improved overall student achievement and learning attitude as:
To explore these ideas, AbD engaged in a program
of action research with its partner group of practitioners in Oakland to develop a theoretical framework, a set of thinking routines, and pictures of practice to support educators in helping students think critically about the design of objects and systems.
These include introducing a reflective statement by each teacher, the deliberate adoption
of an action research approach, and increasing teacher agency by giving them freedom of choice in terms of strategy and group composition to align with their own needs and interests while still maintaining a primary focus on the school's strategic priorities.
To achieve these objectives, the
result of this action research study indicates that giving formative feedback by using VoiceThread is worthwhile since it is a mechanism that combines the asynchronous learning and face - to - face.
The study presented here details the promise
of action research as a reform strategy to connect the two levels of classroom and school.
The collection of papers submitted to symposia in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 present a treasure trove
of action research into learning commons practice in Canada.
Gurian: We've got ten
years of action research and success data that shows that the first thing you should do is get professional development training [for teachers] in how the male brain actually learns.
Munday and colleagues shared
details of their action research project with delegates at EPPC (Excellence in Professional Practice Conference) earlier this month.
This professional development within a Peer Learning Group (PLG) involved meetings, discussion, observation and reflection, supported by Patsy in her role of Master Teacher /
facilitator of action research.
Staff at Queensland's Anglican Church Grammar School (better known as Churchie), have captured Year 10 reading data as
part of an action research project into male students» perceptions of their reading ability pre and post an intervention of taught reading strategies.
Engaging preservice English language arts interns in the analysis of mashups accomplishes two objectives: (a) it brings interns to a deeper
understanding of action research and (b) provides a critical media literacy (CML) foundation on which they might build with their own students.
Burton was awarded a grant in 2007 by National Louis University to research teachers»
use of action research to better serve their students.
He has taught courses focused on the
application of action research to promote educator empowerment, school improvement, and job - embedded professional development, and he also teaches research methods, statistical analyses, and educational assessment methods.
At the
end of my action research, I was able to support my students» reading skill development through clear and focused instruction, designing meaningful practice, creating formative and summative assessments that provided specific data that informed reteaching, and prioritizing time for my students to reflect and track their own growth.
Design research (Dede 2005) is a form
of action research where researchers design a pedagogical intervention, conduct the intervention with a group of learners, and evaluate its efficacy.
Maine Township decided that a next step would be to get data on how well their students were doing with cooperative learning by organizing a
number of Action Research studies.
Ryan is the author of numerous research articles in the New Horizons for Learning and Canadian Journal
of Action Research related to the use of digital games as an effective instructional strategy in the classroom.
Those high performing teachers should be on the cutting
edge of action research helping us discover a break - through in learning.
Over the
course of the action research all eight teachers used differentiated lesson plans to support their instruction in the PLC identified content area (math).
Area of Focus: The focus and
goal of this action research project was to increase students» understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill.
Welcome to the first episode of our series on school - based action research, where we chat to teachers on the ground about the
process of action research, and the impact that it has made in their school.
Phase II The focus and goal
of this action research project was to increase students» understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill and asked the question: How will implementing active rhyming strategies in a four - year - old kindergarten class impact student mastery of rhyming?
The purpose
of this action research was to improve novice teachers» planning capacity and, in turn, their classroom instruction.
To identify those unit plans and action research reflections that integrated video production, the researchers emailed graduates from the 2007, 2008, and 2009 cohorts, asking if
either of their action research units included the use of video.
The purpose
of this action research, in turn, was to examine the effects of alternative forms of assessment and feedback structures on students» math anxiety.
The purpose
of this action research, in turn, was toread more
Education professor Harold C. Hand argued, in the January 1953 issue of Educational Leadership, that they are not and presented a case study
of action research that involved community members in evaluating and updating curriculum.
The purpose
of this action research was to determine the effects of using a mentor - supported model of professional development on mathematics teachers» attitudes and performance regarding specific technology in their classroom.
The focus and goal
of this action research project was to increase students» understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill.