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ACTION RESEARCH - Coggle Diagram
ACTION RESEARCH
Conducting Action Research
Identify a topic or issue to study
What makes a good action research topic?
Important to the practitioners
Relevant to their professional lives
Conducting a literature review
To learn more about the topic
Provide ideas for strategies in identifying promising practices
Developing research questions
Must relate directly to the identified topic
Generalisation is not the focus
Keep research question narrow in scope
why, How, What
Include intervention in the question
Collect data
Try variety of data collection tools
Concept of triangulation
The spiraling nature of data collection
Researcher observes the setting and the participants(looking), interprets the observations(thinking) and identifies a solution(acting).
Analyse and interpret the collected data
Carry out action planning and share the findings
Verbally or written
Taking action
Action oriented
Help understand or try out new or needed methods
Leads to
New questions
New form of understanding
Deeper insights in practice
Can collect
Quantitative data
Qualitative data
Characteristics
Five C's
Commitment
Collaboration
Concern
Consideration
Change
A structured process in which practitioners identify, example and improve aspects of their practice
A approach designed to develop and improve practice
Help to make informed decision-decisions that are data driven