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Moxley, Roy A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1998
Explains how teachers can use treatment-only designs and self-recording (either alone or together) to implement frequent measurement of ongoing student performance and to evaluate and interpret ongoing instruction. Implementation recommendations include emphasizing improvements rather than predetermined goals, and cooperative, rather than…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Based Assessment
Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2004
The "Researching numeracy" project aimed to identify effective classroom teaching approaches in mathematics for students in the early years (Prep-Year 4) and the middle years (Years 5 and 6) in a range of Victorian schools. The action research component of the project involved the research team working with teachers from sixteen research…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Action Research, Numeracy, Teaching Methods
Margolis, Jason; Nagel, Liza – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
School change is inevitable. As a human institution, schools are in a constant state of transformation, and individual teachers adapt or provide the impetus for that transformation all the time. The question, then, is not whether there will be change, but what change there will be--a question complicated by the fact that change means different…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Teacher Burnout, Conflict, Educational Change
Sagor, Richard – 1992
Collaborative action research, conducted by teams of practitioners, is a process that enables teachers: (1) to improve student learning, (2) to improve their own practice, (3) to contribute to the development of their own profession, and (4) to overcome the isolation commonly experienced by classroom teachers. By promoting collegial relationships…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Collegiality, Educational Objectives
Murphy, Dermot F. – Guidelines, 1993
In a study of learner-centered teaching, eight student teachers examined their students' reaction to a number of lessons and tasks. Information was gleaned on aspects of learning, materials, and management perceived to be helpful, and a simple procedure was suggested for helping teachers to conduct similar action research. (Contains five…
Descriptors: Action Research, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)

Whitehead, Jack – Westminster Studies in Education, 1990
Responds to Jean Rudduck's argument that teachers should research their own practice. Maintains the teaching profession needs an autonomous body to accredit teacher education and to regulate curriculum content and assessment procedures. Encourages development of an action research approach to professional development and upgrading quality of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Researchers, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hargrove, Kathy – Gifted Child Today, 2005
This article describes the experiences of a second grade teacher who teaches in a heterogeneous bilingual classroom in a large district, and his assignment in a graduate class to conduct action research. This teacher was concerned about the academic performance and motivation of two gifted, but underachieving Hispanic boys in his class. Both of…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Males, Academically Gifted, Bilingual Education
McCall, Ava L. – Social Studies, 2002
In this article, the author details how she and another teacher developed a multicultural Wisconsin history curriculum for a fourth-grade classroom. Their focus in this article is a description of the main ideas students learned and the instructional strategies that supported their learning from the three-week unit on Wisconsin government. They…
Descriptors: Grade 4, State Government, State History, Educational Strategies
Timperley, Helen S. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2005
Increasingly school leaders are being challenged to take a more instructionally focused role in their schools. This paper tracks the leadership challenges through a change process involving an assistant principal and a group of teachers, supported by a consultant, through four phases of an action research project. During the project the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Assistant Principals, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Baird, John R.; And Others – 1989
This paper reports a study directed toward educational improvement through individual and group change. It is a 3-year naturalistic case study centering on 9 experienced science teachers, 13 novice science teachers, 64 secondary science students, and 4 researchers. The three aims of this study are to know more about: (1) what it is to be a teacher…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
Collins, David; Collins, Ann – 2002
This book is intended to provide the content and structure for a group study of reading and instructional practices that advance reading achievement. The book includes concise summaries of research that reflect sound practices in reading instruction and the most current understanding of the process of reading. It pulls together much of what has…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities, Instructional Effectiveness
Hadley, Gregory S. – 1997
A discussion of a particular problem in an individual teacher's second language classroom leads to a definition of "action research", examines the issues to be addressed before undertaking it, and results in suggestions for designing and implementing the study. Action research is defined as a process designed to improve teaching and facilitate…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Data Collection
Bogdan, Robert C.; Biklen, Sari Knopp – 1998
This introductory level text provides a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education, its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and specific methods of educational research. This revised edition places qualitative research into the context of current discussions of research methods and alternative ways of knowing.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment

Solomon, Joan; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Reports on 18 months of action research that examined the effectiveness of using the history of science to promote British students' understanding of the nature of science. Both quantitative and interview data offer substantial evidence of a strategic movement away from serendipitous empiricism and toward an appreciation of the interactive nature…
Descriptors: Action Research, British National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries

May, Wanda T. – Studies in Art Education, 1993
Presents six assumptions underlying action research, or research by classroom teachers. Contends that teachers can conduct legitimate and useful research if it is qualitative or interpretative not quantitative. Concludes that art education and art educational professionals have much to gain by engaging in action research. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Art Education, Educational History, Educational Research