Action Research

An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement

Jeffrey Glanz

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881851439
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement, Third Edition, is a clear and practical guide to conducting action research in schools. Although it offers neither a cookbook nor a quick-fix approach, this book does outline the process of designing and reporting an action research project. Useful as a classroom text as well as a self-teaching tool, Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement is a comprehensive training manual. It can be used by practitioners in the field, by graduate students enrolled in leadership and/or master's thesis courses, or by anyone interested in learning how to conduct action research projects, including classroom teachers ,who are leaders too in their own right. The strategies and techniques of action research described are no different for teachers than they are for administrators.

The underlying assumption of this work is that research is not a domain only for academics, it is also a powerful approach that can be used by practitioners to contribute to school renewal and instructional improvement. Rather than being merely a philosophical treatise or theoretical analysis, Action Research provides concrete strategies and techniques for conducting action research in schools.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Activities
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. An Introduction to Action Research: It’s Not All That Complicated
• Chapter 2. Teaching and Doing Action Research through General Semantics
• Chapter 3. Getting Started on an Action Research Project
• Chapter 4. Quantitative Approaches to Action Research
• Chapter 5. Qualitative Approaches to Action Research
• Chapter 6. Easy Steps to Program Development and Evaluation Research
• Chapter 7. Data Collection Techniques That Work
• Chapter 8. How to Analyze Quantitative Data Easily
• Chapter 9. How to Analyze Qualitative Data Easily
• Chapter 10. Putting It All Together: What Does It Mean?
• Chapter 11. Completing Your Action Research Master’s Thesis Project
• Chapter 12. Action Research in Practice
• Chapter 13. Seven Suggestions for Action Researchers
• Appendix A. Pretest
• Appendix B. Sample Write-Up of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods and Results*
• Appendix C. Sample Appendixes
• Appendix D. Are You a Good Writer?
• Appendix E. Brief Description of APA Style
• Appendix F. Evaluation Criteria for Report
• Appendix G. Sample Consent Forms
• Appendix H. Sample Cover Letter
• Appendix I. Action Research Projects for Teacher Leaders
• Glossary
• Annotated References
• Index