I'm about to embark in my first educational action research, and I must say it's a little overwhelming. On the other hand, I'm excited about the final outcome and the experience and knowledge I'll gain from the action research. This week I researche a few indicators to help me begin and assess my action research. Here's what I learned today:
1.Context of Study:The quality indicator-
context of study will greatly assist me with my own action research
because it’ll give me a basis for developing my action research. It’ll help me know which questions I’ll need
to consider in the design of my study.
Did I include all the sufficient information for others to
understand? Finally, this indicator will
assist me in the improvement of my action research because it’ll give me the
appropriate questions or indicators necessary to properly assess other
principal- researchers’ work in order to compare my own research to.
2.Wondering(s) and Purpose Indicator: The wondering(s) and
purpose indicator will be of great guidance for my action research it’ll
help me with making sure I connect my wondering(s) to related knowledge, did I
articulate my wondering(s) clearly and free of jargon? Finally, this particular
indicator will help improve my action research by helping me assesses my own
wondering(s) to that of other principal-researchers with similar wondering(s)
or purpose.
3.Principal Research Design Indicator:When conducting my
action research the principal research design indicator will be of benefit
to me, when I’m collecting and designing my data. It will enable me to have some sort of guideline(s)
and rubric to which questions to ask in order to assure that I go about
collecting data in multiple of areas.
Furthermore, this indicator will also enable me to assess the quality of
transferability of my school to that of other principal-researcher’s schools. The
questions will give me some sense of framework to follow based on how I assess
other principal-researcher’s data collection and were they able to explain the
data used and collected with relevance.
4. Principal Researcher Learning Indicator:During my action
research this indicator will assist me in gathering my findings into
effective detailed data that’ll support my inquiry. Finally, I’ll be able to assess the quality
and transferability of the learning of others to that of my own personal
learning. This process will help improve
my action research because it’ll give me something to compare my research to
that of other principal-researchers.
5. Implications for Practice Indicator:
When I
must reflect on my own inquiry this
indicator (implications for practice) will provide me with questions to reflect
on in order to assure that I’m able to give detailed examples of changes I’ve
made or plan on making as a result of my findings. Finally, I’ll be able to assess other’s
changes or changes they’ll make as a result of their inquiry frame worked by
this particular indicator. This last
process will help with the improvement of my inquiry because it’ll assist me in
a framework to follow in order to assess other principal-researcher’s inquiries
to that of my own.
Please if you have any suggestions or knowledge on your personal experience with action research don't hesitate to comment.
