Action Research
Books
Videos
- Action Research Facilitator's Guide
- Action Research
- Action Research: Georgia
- Action Research: Iowa
- Action Research: Overview
- Action Research: Washington
Books
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Title |
What Works in Schools - Translating Research into Action | |
| Author | Robert J. Marzano | |
| Publisher | ASCD | |
| Copyright | 2003 | |
| Description | Marzano synthesizes research to provide clear and unequalled insight into the nature of schooling. He defines the factors affecting student achievement and offers compelling answers to once-elusive questions. In each chapter, Marzano recommends specific - and attainable - action steps to implement successful strategies culled from the wealth of research data. | |
| Reference Number | AR500 |
Videos
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Title |
Action Research Facilitator's Guide | |
| Author | Cathy Caro-Bruce | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | ||
| Reference Number | AR006 |
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Title |
Action Research | |
| Author | Cathy Caro-Bruce | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | Objectives include explaining what is meant by schoolwide action research, explaining why schoolwide action research has promise as a school improvement process, describe the five phases of the action research cycle, and to let the viewer know how to get schoolwide action research started in a school or district. | |
| Reference Number | AR001 |
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Title |
Action Research: Georgia | |
| Author | Cathy Caro-Bruce | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | This tape presents a case study of action research as conducted by an elementary school faculty in Augusta, Georgia. Here, faculty members studying the general state of student learning in their school became concerned about the quality of student writing. On tape, teachers, administrators, and students share what they have experienced and what they have accomplished through the process of schoolwide action research. | |
| Reference Number | AR002 |
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Title |
Action Research: Iowa | |
| Author | Cathy Caro-Bruce | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | In this tape, faculty in the Ames, Iowa school district conduct schoolwide action research. School faculties in this district have powerful support from their local board of education, their central office, and their state teacher's association. As they use action research to guide site-based school improvement. In Ames, much attention, study, discussion, and negotiation occurred as educators and citizens in the community tried to figure out how to implement shared decision making that focused on improved student learning. Action research across the district is the result of their deliberations. On tape, the superintendent, associate superintendent, district action research coordinator, principals, facilitators, and teachers shared the kind of learning environment they are creating for themselves. | |
| Reference Number | AR003 |
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Title |
Action Research: Overview | |
| Author | Cathy Caro-Bruce | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | The first videotape provides an overview of schoolwide action research, and introduces the three case studies shown and the other tapes. Scenes with educators from schools in Georgia, Iowa, and Washington state illustrate why these faculties and individuals are using schoolwide action research. Throughout the overview, the narrator provides the conceptual "glue" that allows the viewer to think about the attributes of action research as a 5 phase unending school renewal process. | |
| Reference Number | AR004 |
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Title |
Action Research: Washington | |
| Author | Cathy Caro-Bruce | |
| Publisher | Video J | |
| Copyright | ||
| Description | This tape focuses on action research at Mattson Junior High in Kent, Washington. The school faced boundary shifts within the districts because of the rapid growth of the region. As a result of these changes, and the staff's concern about providing a nurturing community for their students, the faculty decided to implement a student advisory period to help meet the developmental needs of their diverse pre-teen population. On tape, members of the teacher advisory council, members of the action research committee, other teachers, and administrators share what they learned as they implemented the advisory period and used schoolwide action research to study its effects on their students. | |
| Reference Number | AR005 |