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Workshop 4.5: Friday afternoon

Action Research: Basics

Christa BAUERSchulverbund Graz/West

AUSTRIA

Action Research is "the study of a social situation with a view toimprovin the !uality of action within it"

John Elliott: Action Research for Educational Change. Oen !niversit" #ress: $ilton %e"nes &''&( )'.

Basic idea: Attitude of reflecting about one*s o+n ractice and as,ing for feedbac, fro-the ersons affected

ain features:

done b" teachers/ractitioners the-selves

actual ractice as starting oint for research AR uses si-le -ethods for research and conseuent i-rove-ent of one*s o+n

ractice Action and reflection al+a"s relate to each other creating a c"clical rocess: Action follo+ed b" reflection leading to further action( -odified or enhanced b" reflection.

Cycle:

#hy Action Research$

action

action planreflection

practical theory

Self-evaluation is a learning process

BRDO conference 24 28 September 2003


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AR is an aroach in +hich the ractitioner ea-ines interesting situations of his/her o+nractice +hich -a" be erceived as either ositive or negative in order to bring aboutualitative change.0his -a" be: to i-rove the ualit" of teaching or interaction in rofessional situations to i-rove the understanding of rofessional situations and to eand the reertoire of

strategies to deal +ith these situations and finall" to increase ,no+ledge about the rofession and contribute to the recognition of the

achieve-ents of the rofession in ublic

What is an Action Research process?


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HOW? OBSERVI! "O##E"$I!FEE%BA"&

WHO? Self-observation

Observationby oters

!erson "#$% &nstitution "Scule$By people affecte' "S% !% ($

By means?ResearcDiary

(ritical )rien'#al* to a (olleague+iving an' ta*ing

)ee'bac*

,uestionnaire&ntervies

&nstant fee'bac* meto's.i'eo% )otos% #apes

/nalysis of Documents

Elgrid Messner, Graz Christa Bauer, Graz;WSAR,Brdo !!"

Action Research % ethods of collectin data1auer( Wor,sho Action Research( 1rdo 2334

1 Research diary.Written reflections5 ta,ing notes of ever"thing that hels understand asituation better: observations( feelings( reactions( interretations( reflections(anticiations( lans( h"otheses( elanations( hotograhs( dra+ings( notes(coies of docu-ents....

A"$IO RESEAR"'

%oin( research(ollecting &nformation Data

ASSESSI!

(ompiling information re'ucing'ata

I$ER)RE$I!at 'oes te information 'ata mean

%RAWI! "OSE*+E"ESat are our conclusions ic steps 'o e

ta*e as a conse5uence

*,estion-)ro/e0

%O"+1E$I!at 'o & ant to 'ocument at can be

interesting for colleagues


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6iaries are rivate and should be +ritten u at regular intervals.Tip: Searate observations fro- reflections

21 &'servation notes: notes on focussed observation 7 e.g. teaching situation(arents* -eeting...8 !se:

direct uotations 7 +hat do the eole affected sa"98

lists on ho+ often different eole sea, lan of seating order5 -ar,ing +ho reacts to +ho-9 ho+9

descrition of bod" language und -ove-ent: +hat do the observed

eole do9Tip: old aer in half( reserve left hand side for observations( righthand side for co--ents after observation( use abbreviations

31 Tape recordins: to ,ee a record of so,en infor-ation. 0ranscritions allo+an eact stud" of tal,

6isadvantage: loss of all non;acoustic infor-ation 7 gestures( facialeression( -ove-ent..8 and situational fra-e+or,.. 7 roo-...8

Tip: tae short situations +ith a secial ai- 7 grou +or,( one ea-...8


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a ,ind of for-alized intervie+advantage: eas" to carr" outdisadvantage: less valuable content since "ou cannnot as, additionaluestions( uestions are strictl" for-alizedAnal"sis/ Evaluation is easier if "ou use a lot of "es/no uestions5 ho+ever(

"ou get -ore infor-ation +ith oen uestions 7e.g. uestions on ersonaloinion8#hen formulatin the !uestions you should ta+e the followin aspects intoaccount:

What do < +ant to find out9 Will < get this infor-ation fro- -" uestion9 Can the uestion be -isunderstood9 6oes the uestion suggest so-ething9 6o < eect a certain ans+er9 6oes it create the i-ulse for contradiction9 6oes the uestion ai- at descritions or reroductions of sub=ective

state-ents9

/ction Researc9 :eto's of /s*ing for )ee'bac*