Improving Schools Through Action Research: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators

by Cher C. Hendricks

This compact, clear and user-friendly text provides everything a pre-service or in-service teacher needs to know to follow the research cycle and conduct an action research project. This text emphasizes reflective processes used in planning and conducting action research studies, data analysis techniques (quantitative and qualitative), and displaying and explaining results. It provides specific information needed to complete each step of the action research cycle with chapter activities that help the student/reader conduct projects focused on school improvement. Each activity includes a research paper component that helps students create a research paper as they complete the activities in each chapter. This text has more emphasis on reflective and reflexive activities than other text and is geared toward adults/professionals who will use these activites to conduct action research for educational change and school improvement.

Genres: Education

216 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

About as useful as textbooks come. This text helps guide you through an action research project. Activities are given throughout the chapters to help you piece your project together as you go along. Provided you are given enough time by the professor, you will have successfully completed your own project by the conclusion of the book.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was required for my MAT coursework, and it validates many ideas I have had about the reflective process of research. It is akin to Paolo Freire and is relevant to educators and learners at all levels.

[Becka Ramaglia]

Gives a good guide to creating action research. Being that I already know how to collect data, I felt that those descriptions were a bit repetitive. Also, a portion of the websites given were already outdated. But that didn't make the text less to me.

[Leanna Aker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great introduction to action research that discusses the theoretical and practical considerations. Nice chapter on ways to be reflective in your teaching practice.