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.