Action

Research

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Session Objectives:

 Discuss the importance of professional

learning
 Show the importance of Action Research in
teaching-learning process
 DepED policies related to conducting Action
Research
 Familiarize the steps in doing action
research

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Professional Learning

•- is the ongoing learning, where teachers

continually work to improve their teaching
to achieve better outcomes for their
students.
•- one method that can be used for effective
professional learning is Action Research

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

What is Action Research?

 It is a process in which teachers examine their own

education practice systematically and carefully using the
technique of research. It is based on the following
assumptions:
1. Teachers and principals work best on problems they have
identified
2. Teachers and principals become more effective when
encouraged to examine and assess their own work and then
consider ways of working differently.
3. Teachers and principals help each other by working
collaboratively.
4. Working with colleagues help teachers and principals in their
professional development.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

What is Action Research?

 it is typically designed and conducted by

practitioners who analyze data from their workplace
to improve their own practice.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

DepED Policy

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Research Funding

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

DepED Policy
• DepED Order 66, s. 2007 Revised Guidelines on the
Appointment and Promotion of other Teaching and Related-
Teaching and Non-Teaching Positions

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Action Research Template DO 16 S. 2017
I. Context and Rationale
II. Action Research Questions
III. Proposed Innovation , and Strategy
IV. Action Research Methods
a. Participants and/ or Sources of Data and Information
b. Data Gathering Methods
c. Ethical Issues
d. Data Analysis Plan
V. Action Research Work Plan and Timeliness
VI. Cost Estimates
VII. Plans for Dissemination and Utilization
VIII. References

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

I. Context and Rationale
The context and rationale should be designed to
attract the reader's attention and explain the focus of
the research. You will introduce your overview of
the topic, your main points of information, and why
this subject is important. You can introduce the current
understanding and background information about the
topic. Toward the end of the introduction, you add
your thesis statement, and explain how you will
provide information to support your research
questions. This provides the purpose, focus, and
structure for the rest of the paper.
Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division
Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division
• Action Research questions are used to guide the action research
process through the design and conduct of data collection, the
analysis and validation (triangulation) of data, and the writing of the
report.
• When writing action research questions, you should keep the
following criteria in mind:
1. They should be broad in scope.
2. They should be research questions (questions about the
action) rather than data collection questions (questions to be asked
of participants in an interview or on a survey).
3. They should, when answered, have an impact on your
practices.
4. They should be answerable.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

III. Proposed Innovation, Intervention, and Strategy
• Innovation
- a new idea, method, or device
- The introduction of something new
• Intervention
- Action taken to improve a situation
- Most common instructional intervention
1. intentional
2. specific
3. formalized

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division
Action Research Methodology
• Research methodology is the specific
procedures or techniques used to identify,
select, process, and analyze information
about a topic. In a research paper, the
methodology section allows the reader to
critically evaluate a study’s overall validity
and reliability. The methodology section
answers two main questions: How was the
data collected or generated? How was it
analyzed? 

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division
Data Gathering Methods
• is defined as the procedure of collecting,
measuring and analyzing accurate insights for
research using standard validated techniques. A
researcher can evaluate their hypothesis on the
basis of collected data. In most cases, data
collection is the primary and most important
step for research, irrespective of the field of
research. The approach of data collection is
different for different fields of study, depending
on the required information.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Data Analysis Plan

• A data analysis plan is a roadmap for how

you're going to organize and analyze your
survey data—and it should help you achieve
three objectives that relate to the goal you set
before you started your survey: Answer your
top research questions. Use more specific
survey questions to understand those
answers.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Qualitative research is an approach for exploring and understanding the meaning
individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem. The process of research
involves emerging questions and procedures, data typically collected in the participant’s
setting, data analysis inductively building from particulars to general themes, and the
researcher making interpretations of the meaning of the data.

Quantitative research is an approach for testing objective theories by examining the

relationship among variables. These variables, in turn, can be measured, typically on
instruments, so that numbered data can be analyzed using statistical procedures. The final
written report has a set structure consisting of introduction, literature and theory, methods,
results, and discussion. Like qualitative researchers, those who engage in this form of inquiry
have assumptions about testing theories deductively, building in protections against bias,
controlling for alternative or counterfactual explanations, and being able togeneralize and
replicate the findings.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Ethical Issues
• Ethical issues occur when a given decision,
scenario or activity creates a conflict with a
society’s moral principles. Both individuals and
businesses can be involved in these conflicts,
since any of their activities might be put to
question from an ethical standpoint. Individuals
are subject to these issues in their relationships
with other individuals or in their relationships
with organizations and same goes for
organizations.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Timetable or Gantt Chart
• A Gantt chart is a timeline of a
project. The top of the chart shows the
time frame and the left side of the
chart lists the project activities.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

• A cost estimate is the approximation of
the cost of a program, project, or operation.
The cost estimate is the product of the cost
estimating process. The cost estimate has a
single total value and may have identifiable
component values.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

 • A dissemination plan is a plan for
disseminating research findings or
products to those who will use the
information in practice and is
something that you should be thinking
about early on. It is what will help you
get the message out whether it is
results of research or a successful
intervention.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division
 • References provide the information
necessary for readers to identify and
retrieve each work cited in the text.
•A reference list is a complete list of
references used in a piece of writing
including the author name, date of
publication, title and more.

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division

 End of Session
Thank You!!!

Division of Negros Occidental School Governance and Operations Division