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Action Research in Education: Dr. Tarek Chebbi, FIU
Action Research in Education: Dr. Tarek Chebbi, FIU
Education
Dr. Tarek Chebbi, FIU
Practical Participatory
Develop an
Collect Data
Action Plan
Analyze and
Interpret Data
Collaborative
Team
Parents
Staff
Administrators
1. Don't Give Up
2. Enlist the Help of Colleagues
3. Keep a Positive Attitude
4. Be Prepared to Compromise
5. Be Generous
6. Go Public
7. Join a Local Action Research Group
8. Establish a Reputation for Success
9. Publish Reports in Journals
10. Have Faith in Your Own Knowledge.
5. Tutorials 6. Enrichment
Provide tutorial time to re-teach non Provide enrichment opportunities for
mastered target areas. mastery students.
7. Maintenance 8. Monitoring
Provides materials for ongoing Principal assumes the role of
maintenance and re-teaching. instructional leader, involved in
teaching and learning process.
Act Study
•Reinforce – review what has been •Provide frequent assessments
taught •Collect data to identify mastery
•Refocus (Development) -remediate and/or non-mastery
during school hours for non- •Assessments should “look and feel”
mastery students like accountability tests.
•Refocus (Enrichment)- mastery •Teachers should meet to review
students receive advanced or scores and share improvement ideas.
challenging work
Action Research - Power Point by:
Dr. Tarek Chebbi, FIU
AR Links
• http://educ.queensu.ca/projects/action_research/15quote.htm
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/reflect/act_res.html
http://arj.sagepub.com/
Where? In environments
Action Research - Power Point by: In schools and
Dr. Tarek Chebbi, FIU
• Action Research engages teachers in a
four-step process
1. Identify an area of focus
2. Collect Data
3. Analyze and interpret data
4. Develop an action plan