B-8 Action Research
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
― Mahatma Gandhi
Action research help to grow and develop knowledge and resources for change. This is a very critical skill if change is to become routine. Often action research helps a district, program, teacher, student, and/or community find the reality of a certain question or challenge. Numbers do not lie and quantitative action research will help to show where change is needed. Qualitative research can answer how a certain community feels about change. Both of these research methods are important. Numerical change will not be as effective if a teacher does not "feel" like following the program. The teacher has the greatest effect on a classroom and the growth and success of his/her students. I often use action research on items such as how my students are progressing, which teacher writes the most referrals, to monitoring the teacher evaluation process to make sure I am on time for finishing the cycle in the time-line given. I have attached some data I recently gathered for a teacher's Civics scores on his first benchmark. I shared these scores, which included the standard breakdown, with the teacher for potential remediation needs. I will continue to give instructors their results and we will share these results out at our grade level meetings so that we can reinforce needed skills within our student's day through bell work or other specific strategies.
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