ACTION

RESEARCH
David Stevens
Diego Verga;o
Daira Rosero
Julio Rendon
ACTION RESEARCH
Kurt Lewin is the father of action
research.

He used this term for the first time in

1944. He described it as a form of
research that could link the
experimental approaching social
science with social action programs.
DEFINITION

 John Eliot (1993) “is the

study of a social situation
in order to improve the
quality of action within
the same”
 Identify a question
 Test out a strategy
 Gather data
 Determinate if it works.
FOUR PHASES

 1st phase: planning.

 2nd phase: action.
 3rd phase: analysis.
 4th pahse: conclusion.
 Cyclic Participatory

Characteristic
s:

Qualitative Reflexive
THE ACTION RESEARCH
PROCESS
Can be engaged in
 By a single teacher
 By a group of colleagues (interest in a common problem)
 By the entire faculty of a school

Involves seven-step process

1. Selecting a focus
2. Clarifying theories
3. Identifying research questions
4. Collecting data
5. Analyzing data
6. Reporting results
7. Taking informed action
1. SELECTING FOCUS
 Identifying a topic or topics
 Problem to solve

 Example

Third grade students find it hard to

make divisions
2. CLARIFYING THEORIES
 Identifying values, beliefs, and theoretical
perspective

Example

 What peculiarities do students with

difficulties have?
 Does the theory agree with the knowledge
of the context?
 3. IDENTIFYING RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
 Generate a set of personally meaningful
research question to guide the inquiry

Example
 there are questions to answer and
tentative answers
4. COLLECTING DATA
 Data used to justify theirs action valid
and reliable
 Triangulation

 Examples
 What strategies do students use to
divide? Are the strategies good?

 Take a group of children who

participate in the action
5. ANALYZING DATA

 The teacher exchanges ideas

with other colleagues to
facilitate the analysis, when
the results of the different
sources are analyzed, co-
emergencies or common points
are looked for.
6. REPORTING RESULTS
Action research most often occurs
in informal settings that are far less
intimidating

They are making a contribution to a

collective knowledge
7. TAKING INFORMED
ACTION

 Action planning
 Data uncovered
 Confident
 Trial and error
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://
www.ascd.org/publications/books/100047/chapters/What-Is-Action-Research
%C2%A2.aspx
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov3F3pdhNkk