Action-based research

What is Action research

Structured process where praticioners

Identify

Examine

Improve aspects

Use in real-time situation

Solving real-problem of their practices

Contribute

Practical concerns

Develop and improve practices

Educational

Increasing knowledge and improve practices

Goals of social science

Ethical framework

Collect data of

Qualitative

Quantitative

Characteristic

Commitment

Participants need time

Trust

Observe practices

Try new approaches

Collaboration

Power of relations

Equal among participants

Each person contributes ideas

Each person has a stake

Not same as compromise

Involve cyclical process

Sharing

Giving

Taking

Ideas and suggestion

Listened to

Reflect on

Respected

Concern

Interpretive Nature

Develop a support group

Critical friends

Trust each other

Value of project

Openness in communication with everyone

Keeping promises

Consideration

Reflective practice and review

Concentration and careful

Seek patterns

Generate meaning within the investigation

Change

Growing in developmental cycle of life

Ongoing

At times

Important elemets

Effective as an individual

Difficult

Subtopic

Conducting action Research

Six(6) Basic Steps

Identify a topic/issue to study

Important to the practicioners

Relevant to the professional lives

Topic can be refined by discussing with colleague or mentor

Conducting a literature review

Learn more about the topic

Provide ideas and strategies

Developing research questions

Relate directly to the identified topic

Keep research questions narrow in scope

Include intervention in the question

Implementation

Take action

Collect data related to the chosen topic/issue

Variety of data collection tools

Qualitative

Quantitative

Concept of Triangulation

Interview

Observation

Survey

Research ethics must be fully implements in the study

Spiraling Nature of data collection

Observes the setting

Participants(Looking)

Interprets and observations(Thinking)

Identifies a solution(Acting)

Analyse and interpret the data collection

Stop collecting data

Start analyzing when have reached data saturation

Make decisions for practitioner to understand and improve in the study

Goal of analysis is to interpret data

Report and share the findings/results

Verbally

Written

Take action based on the results

Implement the changes based on the results

Evaluate and reflect

Help to understand the new or needed methods

New questions

New forms

Deeper insights in practice