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Download full textLin, Wan-Ju – 1998
This study reports on the improvement of a teacher researcher's teaching practice by adopting a constructivist teaching approach. Four biology units on the nervous system, human circulatory system, evolution, and vertebrate classification were selected to illustrate a model of biology teaching. Data were drawn from student responses to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Jackson, Charles – 1998
Thirty-four representatives of the Department for Education and Employment and other national organizations in the United Kingdom, researchers and educators in the fields of career education and guidance, and guidance practitioners from careers service companies and higher education institutions explored ways of developing a research culture in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Career Education, Career Guidance, Educational Research
Coyne, Nancy M.; Dwyer, Mary L.; Kennedy, Marianne; Petter, Nancy M. – 2000
This action research project investigated the effects of music on the behavior and performance of students (ages 3-21) with multiple disabilities, mental retardation, or severe mental retardation in four self-contained special education classrooms. The teacher researchers involved in the study made no assumptions with regard to the outcomes. It…
Descriptors: Action Research, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Boswell, Laura; Nugent, Peg – 2002
Teacher action research using both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were used to examine impacts of using visual learning strategies on five preschool children (ages 3-5) with autism in a self-contained classroom. During the six weeks of the study, pictures representing nine learning areas and specific developmental…
Descriptors: Action Research, Autism, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Valli, Linda – 1999
This paper describes how the researcher revised an action research class for preservice Masters students within the larger context of school improvement. Analysis of students' action research projects revealed some ironic and unintended consequences of linking action research to school improvement. Analysis of the researcher's own pedagogical…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Salzman, James A.; Snodgrass, Donna – 1998
This study examined whether the effects of collaboration between schools and higher education would persist 1 year after discontinuation of an action research project. Participants were teachers and other district personnel who had completed an action research seminar the previous year. They completed a survey that compared their present attitudes…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedGallagher, James J. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
Contract research has increased because of: agencies' time limits; governmental agencies' skepticism about academics' practicality; and a power struggle between government and universities for control of the information production business. Implications of the increase in contract research are discussed and recommendations are made. (MH)
Descriptors: Action Research, Contracts, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Peer reviewedMacLure, Maggie – British Educational Research Journal, 1996
Examines the possible roles and contributions of postmodernist thought to educational research. Models some of these approaches in its consideration of interviews collected during a project reviewing the careers of educational researchers. Provides a number of verbatim transcripts from the interviews and discusses their various narrative and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Advocacy, Autobiographies, Educational Change
Peer reviewedPlacier, Margaret – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1995
Presents the story of one beginning teacher educator's struggles with grading. She used participant observation and action research to better understand grades and improve her grading practices. The paper examines political, cultural, and ethical contexts of her grading decisions; describes manifestations of grade orientation; and discusses…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Instruction, College Students, Education Courses
Peer reviewedStuart, Maureen A. – Elementary School Journal, 1994
Two classroom research studies of fourth graders employed group grading to increase cooperation among group members and mathematics test scores of low achievers. Results indicated that group grading was more effective with students who enjoyed working in groups and who accepted the method of assessment than with students who did not like group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedElliott, John – Cambridge Journal of Education, 1989
Discusses the relationship between educational theory and teacher professional knowledge. The paper presents eight criteria specifying types of educational inquiry processes which teacher educators and educational researchers must foster as a context for their activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Researchers, Educational Theories, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMiller, Donald M.; Pine, Gerald J. – Journal of Staff Development, 1990
Teachers can contribute to educational improvement by conducting classroom research concerning teaching and learning processes. Action research as staff development advances professional inquiry, improves education, and promotes teacher development. The article lists seven conditions necessary for the school environment for action research to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers
Direct linkCaldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 1997
This publication contains reports on six research projects proposed, developed, and conducted by teachers in their own classrooms. The projects were conducted during the 1995-96 school year. The projects are: (1) "M..M..M..Math (Making More Meaning out of Math)" (Naomi Rose); (2) "Effect of Student Achievement as a Result of Individualized Use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Classroom Research, Computer Uses in Education
Cherry, David; Sanders, Barbara – 1999
Collaborative action research has been a central focus of the Masters in Teaching (MIT) program at Whitworth College, Washington. This paper focuses on two aspects that are essential in any effective teacher education program: collaboration between preservice and inservice teacher education and schools and action research to enhance what K-12…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study
