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Fishman, Stephen M.; McCarthy, Lucille – 2000
In this book, two teachers share their experiences as researchers to confront and address the current disagreements about whether empirical research or narrative recounting is a better research model. In the book they seek to transcend these disagreements by endorsing an integrative approach that covers all aspects of practitioner inquiry, joining…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Educational Research
Mills, Geoffrey E. – 2000
This guide defines action research and provides historical and theoretical contexts for its use. Specific advice is given for the teacher-researchers engaging in action research, and a case study provides an extended example of the action research process. The chapters are: (1) "Understanding Action Research"; (2) "Deciding on an Area of Focus";…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Leach, Sue; Bowling, Jenny – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Describes a project that addressed how teachers can help second language learners with the difficulties of written mathematical situations. Concludes that retrieving and transforming what students know about mathematics into their own words, and their own words into mathematical language, is a crucial part of mathematics learning. (ASK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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Winsor, Matthew S. – Mathematics Teacher, 2007
In this article, the author describes how he created an approach that he terms "Mathematics as a Second Language" (MSL) for teaching ELL students mathematics. The main components of MSL are vocabulary activities, journals, group work, and projects. He used MSL to teach prealgebra to ELL students, as well as to native English speakers, for two…
Descriptors: Action Research, Mathematics Instruction, Limited English Speaking, English (Second Language)
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MacNaughton, Glenda; Hughes, Patrick; Smith, Kylie – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
This article describes an action-learning project that helped teachers to rethink their approaches to children who challenge. The project enabled and encouraged teachers to reflect critically on why and how particular children challenged them and then to use their critical reflections to strengthen their capacity to work with those children. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Early Childhood Education
Allen, Lew; Lunsford, Barbara – 1995
This handbook, written for educators (teachers, principals, central office administrators, university faculty, and area educational agency staff) offers guidelines on how to establish, maintain, and evaluate a practitioner-driven school network. Such a network is created and governed by practitioners who decide what services they want, modify the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Cooperation, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Calhoun, Emily – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
Standardized test scores can not give a complete picture of the effectiveness of reading programs--and they are no help in telling what to do about poor results. But here's a book that describes a comprehensive assessment system that analyzes both student performance and the elements of reading programs. Learn how to use schoolwide action research…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Ediger, Marlow – 2001
Students individually need to experience success in reading, be it a systematic approach in phonics or in whole language procedures. Quality action research, conducted within the local school/school system, needs to be conducted to notice which of these two procedures of reading instruction best meets student needs. Each student needs to achieve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Comparative Analysis, Phonics
Fleming, Douglas S. – 2000
This guide introduces the skills and dispositions necessary to participate in educational action research. It targets teachers, administrators, college faculty, graduate students, state professional organizations, and state administrators. Chapter 1, "Understanding Action Research as a Tool for Professional Growth and Organizational Development,"…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
Miller, Ginny; Bench, Karen – Learning, 1996
Action research allows teachers to find their own answers to classroom questions and issues. The five-step process for action research involves picking a problem to study and determining one's knowledge, collecting the data, analyzing the data, reporting the results, and planning actions using the knowledge. (SM)
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Jasper, Bill; Taube, Sylvia – Teacher Education and Practice, 2004
This research study involved both quantitative and qualitative analysis of elementary teachers' problem-solving skills before and after a focused summer intervention program. Following research-based recommendations for effective professional development, the researchers developed and implemented a program to teach general problem-solving…
Descriptors: Intervention, Action Research, Problem Solving, Professional Development
Capobianco, Brenda M.; Lincoln, Susan; Canuel-Browne, Donna; Trimarchi, Ruth – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of this article is to examine the teacher research movement from the perspective of three generations of teacher researchers within the context of a unique collaborative science teacher action research group. The question that guided the study was the following: In what ways do three generations of science teachers perceive their…
Descriptors: Action Research, Science Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Secondary School Science
Angelides, Panayiotis; Gibbs, Paul – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
This article reports on a method developed for teacher self development that is grounded in the classroom and within the everyday repertoire of skills and resources available for teachers. It is developed under the general rubric of action research, which positions teachers as insider researchers of their own practice. Action research techniques…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Action Research, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
Berlin, Donna F., Ed.; White, Arthur L., Ed. – International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (NJ3), 2011
The chapters in this book reflect the work of science and mathematics educators who have worked for many years at the international level. As members of the International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education, their work provides readers with issues, models, practices, and research results that have applicability and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Mathematics Education, STEM Education, Educational Innovation
Benton, Jean – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005
"Using Action Research to Foster Positive Social Values" provides teachers with a unique framework in which to consider classroom violence. It uses actual case studies and working models done through classroom research to produce more effective classrooms that foster positive social values. The author lays out a theoretical framework for: (1)…
Descriptors: Social Values, Peace, Classroom Research, Action Research
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