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Harkness, Shelly Sheats; Portwood, Lisa – Mathematics Educator, 2007
In this narrative of teacher educator action research, the idea for and the context of the lesson emerged as a result of conversations between Shelly, a mathematics teacher educator, and Lisa, a quilter, about real-life mathematical problems related to Lisa's work as she created the templates for a reproduction quilt. The lesson was used with…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum, Action Research, Young Children
Sorgo, Andrej – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2006
We tried to enrich teaching human anatomy in high school biology lessons. Students construct dichotomous identification keys to the cells, tissues, organs, or body parts. By doing this, students have achieved higher-order cognitive levels of knowledge because construction of such keys is based on analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Students found…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Identification, Human Body, Anatomy
Raban, Bridie – 1991
This paper reviews four currently recognized modes of inquiry available to reading researchers, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The paper discusses empiricism, interpretive research, critical science/theory, and action research, briefly describing the purposes, goals, and assumptions underlying each mode of inquiry. The…
Descriptors: Action Research, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Sousa, David A. – 2001
This book presents information to help teachers turn research on brain function into practical classroom activities and lessons, offering: brain facts; information on how the brain processes information; tips on maximizing retention; an information processing model that reflects new terminology regarding the memory systems; new research on how the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education

Campbell, Patricia F. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
When permitted, children frequently devise approaches to solving problems that are distinct from those typically used by adults. Presents examples of children's thinking from Project IMPACT which illustrate the crucial interplay between a teacher's instructional decisions and children's thinking while confronting mathematical misconceptions.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions
McConaughy, Stephanie H.; Kay, Pam; Welkowitz, Julie A.; Hewitt, Kim; Fitzgerald, Martha D. – Guilford Publications, 2007
The Achieving-Behaving-Caring (ABC) Program is an evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties and promoting successful home-school collaboration. This practical guide demonstrates how classroom teachers and parents can work together to boost individual children's…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Parent Participation, Action Research, Parent School Relationship
Canen, Ana – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article describes action research within a multicultural pedagogical praxis orientation in a teacher education course at a higher education institution in Brazil during the academic year 2003. The narrative draws on the ways in which the course sought to develop a research perspective that could equip student teachers with elements that allow…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Higher Education, Action Research
Donahue, David M. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
In the vein of action research, the author examines his practice of matching lesbian and gay student teachers with a lesbian or gay cooperating teacher for field placement. This article addresses several questions. In what ways, if any, do lesbian and gay teachers help new teachers cope with and interrupt homophobia? How do they help student…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Role Models, Action Research
Caro-Bruce, Cathy – 2000
This handbook is a roadmap for action research facilitators to help groups as they work through the research process. It offers quotations, handouts, strategies, resources, and insights from actual experiences. The sections of the handbook follow the action research cycle, focusing on: "What is Action Research?"; "What is the Action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Roulston, Kathryn – Music Education Research, 2006
Increasing numbers of music education researchers have begun to use qualitative methods to examine research topics using interviews, observations, documents, and archival data. In this article, I review qualitative research methodology and its origins and methods, discuss topics that have been studied by music education researchers using…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research Design, Ethnography, Case Studies
Beringer, Almut – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: To introduce the campus sustainability assessment framework (CSAF) as a campus sustainability audit methodology; to share student campus sustainability audit research; to reflect on using the CSAF for pedagogy; to review the usefulness of the CSAF as an action research instrument; to encourage other faculty/sustainability educators to…
Descriptors: Campuses, Environmental Education, Activism, Action Research
Juang, Yih-Ruey; Liu, Tzu-Chien; Chan, Tak-Wai – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is essential to career development for teachers. Teachers can develop their own PCK by research-based activities such as action research and lesson study, with a particular emphasis on the employment of classroom practice, information technology, and collaborative learning. However, in recent studies, most of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Action Research, Information Technology, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Herr, Kathryn; Anderson, Gary L. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2005
Many students struggle with turning action research projects into a Master's thesis or doctoral dissertation: to address this need, the authors have distilled decades of action research experience into a reference for graduate students. This book is designed to provide a roadmap to show that action research is appropriate not only for a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Action Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Ethics
Jones, Noel K. – Running Record, 2000
Decision-making in Reading Recovery requires skills of observation and reflective analysis that many teachers have not had to learn in order to be good classroom teachers. This is because Reading Recovery sets the teacher a very complex task which involves the construction of a curriculum for each individual child--a curriculum that is…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Techniques, Decision Making, Literacy

Mack, Nancy K. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents an approach for teaching the multiplication of fractions by helping students build a foundation on the basis of their informal knowledge. Suggests some action research ideas for teachers to try in their classrooms. (ASK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Fractions, Mathematics Activities