Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Conducting Classroom Research
I. Classroom Problem/Question
Why is it important to you? To others? Will you REALLY work on it?
III. Summary
Explain how the problem changed, didn't change—or maybe became worse—because of
changes in your instruction.
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Action Research Plan Summary
Step 2. __________________________________________________________________
Step 3. __________________________________________________________________
Step 4. __________________________________________________________________
Step 5. __________________________________________________________________
3. Anticipate obstacles you might face in completing your plan and consider how you can
overcome them.
State what you’ll expect to see if the plan works as a research question.
“If I _____________________________ how will students _________________________?”
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5. What is your timeline for enacting your action plan and conducting your data collection?
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
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Feedback Checklist for Action Research
1. Does the research question seem focused enough to be “do-able”? Is it something the
researcher can actually control? If not, how can it be modified to make it more simple and
controllable?
2. Does the plan seem to address the problem in a reasonable way? If not, make suggestions.
3. Are anticipated obstacles addressed? Have you considered ways to overcome them?
4. Are the data gathering procedures sufficient to give evidence of whether the plan works or
not?
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