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The Action Research Guidebook; A Four-Stage Process for Educators and School Teams
by Richard SagorEdition:
2nd
ISBN13:
9781412981286
ISBN10:
141298128X
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
11/19/2010
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Corwin Pr
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Best-selling author Richard Sagor's updated edition provides steps for effectively implementing research and data. The book is organized around Sagor's four-stage process and includes hands-on tools.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Author | |
| Introduction to Action Research | |
| Why Conduct Action Research? | |
| The Complexity of Routine Instructional Decisions | |
| Key Terms and Concepts | |
| Universal Student Success | |
| Finding a Focus | |
| Zeroing in on Your Priorities | |
| Using Reflective Writing to Find a Focus | |
| Using a Journal to Identify Action Research Foci | |
| Reflective Interviews | |
| Analytic Discourse | |
| Team Reflection | |
| Refining the Focus | |
| Visualizing Success | |
| Doing an Instructional Postmortem | |
| Comparing Your Experience With the Experience of Others | |
| Developing Criteria to Measure Changes With Priority Achievement Targets | |
| Creating Rating Scales | |
| The Special Problem of Long-Range Goals | |
| Assessing Rate of Growth | |
| Determining Adequate Yearly Progress in Real Time | |
| Producing Your Own Rate-of-Growth Charts | |
| End of Stage | |
| Articulating a Theory in Action | |
| If Not Us, Who? | |
| An Adequate Knowledge Base Already Exists | |
| Going Beyond Proven Practices: Building a Theory of Action | |
| Two Kinds of Variables | |
| Creating Mileposts on the Route to Mastery | |
| Inferring Independent Variables | |
| Using the Priority Pie to Identify, Clarify, and Weigh Independent Variables | |
| Using the Priority Pie With Descriptive Research | |
| Drawing a Theory in Action | |
| Why a Map? | |
| Building a Graphic Reconstruction | |
| Graphic Reconstructions for Quasi-Experimental Research | |
| Graphic Reconstructions With Descriptive Research | |
| Determining the Research Questions | |
| Three Generic Action Research Questions | |
| Developing Your Own Research Questions | |
| Two-Step Walk-Through | |
| Drafting the Questions | |
| Building a Data-Collection Plan | |
| Data Collection and the Competing Demands for Your Time | |
| What Qualifies as Teaching? | |
| What Qualifies as Data? | |
| Data in Descriptive Research | |
| Data in Quasi-Experimental Research | |
| Data Collection and Concerns About Precision | |
| Fishing in a Sea of Data | |
| Securing Research Assistants | |
| Building a Triangulated Data-Collection Plan | |
| Integrating Efficiencies Into Your Data-Collection Work | |
| Using Technology to Compile and Assemble Action Research Data | |
| Keeping a Researcher's Journal | |
| Analyzing the Data | |
| Trend Analysis | |
| Organizing Data to Help Answer the Three Generic Questions | |
| What Did We Do? | |
| What Changes Occurred Regarding the Achievement Targets? | |
| Disaggregation | |
| What Was the Relationship Between Actions Taken and Any Changes in Performance on the Targets? | |
| Drawing Tentative Assertions | |
| Using Member Checking to Add Credibility to the Tentative Assertions | |
| Additional Tools for Qualitative Data Analysis | |
| Qualitative Data Analysis Using Bins and a Matrix | |
| Low-Tech Strategies for Bins and Matrixes | |
| High-Tech Strategies for Bins and Matrixes | |
| Turning Findings Into Action Plans | |
| Modifying Your Theory of Action | |
| Data-Based Decision Making | |
| Turning Your Findings Into Ed Specs | |
| Solicit and Brainstorm Action Alternatives | |
| Assessing the Action Alternatives | |
| Completing the Cycle: Revised Theory of Action 2 | |
| Reporting and Sharing Action Research | |
| Common Issues | |
| Formats for Reporting | |
| Creating a Bank of Abstracts | |
| Creating a District Archive | |
| Conclusion: The School as a Learning Organization | |
| The Two Keys: Coherence and Congruence | |
| Putting the Pieces Together | |
| How to Use the Feedback Forms and Summary Reports | |
| Five Characteristics of a Quality Action Research Project | |
| Applications for Leadership Projects | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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