Supporting the Teaching of Action Research (STAR) is an Action Research Community (ARC) of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA)
Read what members of the STAR-ARNA-ARC have to say about teaching action research. Finding Their Passion One of my favorite experiences teaching action research happens during an early stage in our program; when a teacher decides on their research topic and drafts their research question. Often times, teachers start out with one idea only to … Continue reading Action Research Educators Share their Most Rewarding Experience
Social Publishers Foundation (SPF) was created to support practitioner research in a variety of social domains. https://www.socialpublishersfoundation.org/kb-browse/education/ Invited article: Personalized Professionalization in Pedagogical Fields through Practitioner Research This free alternative to the knowledge dissemination system of dominant formal journals has been constructed to provide support and mentoring for people who are looking for a way … Continue reading Social Publishing with a Social Conscience
** Kathryn Shafer ** After completing their action research studies, I ask my teachers to reflect on an area of personal growth. Over the years, two overarching themes have emerged—confidence and the development of a teacher-researcher mindset. The combination of these constructs leads to a discussion of leadership, which will be addressed in a future … Continue reading Completing Action Research Impacts Teachers’ Confidence
Margaret Riel I have been thinking about the collaborative aspects of action research. In an article in the STAR ARNA ARC - May 2019 Newsletter, I laid out two very different forms of collaborative action research. Collaboration with other action researchers This can be as a part of a larger project for example whole … Continue reading Meta-Level Action Research Strategies
In 1997 Susan Noffke noted there are three types of action researchers: professional, personal, and political. The ethics for each type differ: Action research done by professionals is intended to increase generalizable knowledge and comes under the purview of institutional review boards that are accountable under federal regulations. Personal action researchers conduct investigations in order … Continue reading Ethics for Action Researchers
Margaret Riel What can we measure? Action research is evidence-driven. For many who are new to action research, this invokes control groups, variables, and measurement tools like surveys and questionnaires. They assume that they will need to control variables, have a treatment and draw causal relationships between actions and outcomes.In action research, practitioners study the … Continue reading Non-traditional Data Collection in Action Research: Let’s get Creative!
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