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Download full textAbdal-Haqq, Ismat – 1995
This digest outlines salient characteristics of teacher-led research and its benefits to teachers and students. A discussion of selected resources for teacher researchers, which are available through various components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), follows the overview. Effective teacher research is an empowering…
Descriptors: Action Research, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research
Reynolds, Karen E.; Barba, Robertta H. – 1996
This book addresses the subject of integrating new technology in science instruction and is designed for pre-service teachers, inservice teachers, curriculum and instructional leaders, consultants, and designers of instructional materials for science. Examples for instructional practice lie within the elementary and middle level grade range while…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources
Direct linkSomekh, Bridget – Open University Press, 2005
This book presents a fresh view of action research as a methodology uniquely suited to researching the processes of innovation and change. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience of leading or facilitating action research projects, Bridget Somekh argues that action research can be a powerful systematic intervention, which goes beyond describing,…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Community Development, Action Research, Research Methodology
Teachers Network, New York, NY. – 2001
This CD-ROM presents six videos that feature veteran middle and high school teachers in action in their classrooms. Each video offers links to supplemental education resources, including innovative lesson plans. The six videos are: "Monsters and Myths" (a humanities unit for middle school students); "The Bleeding Edge" (a thematic…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Action Research, Art Education, Beginning Teachers
Spradling, Tina – 2000
An adult educator at an all-male maximum-security correctional center in Virginia conducted a research project to learn her students' attitudes toward the computers that had recently been introduced in their classroom. She used the following data collection tools and activities: a nine-question survey that was administered to the students in all…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Traverse, Dennis – 2000
An academic teacher at a maximum-security prison in Virginia conducted a study to determine how to improve instruction and motivate adult learners in a correctional facility. Data were collected through a survey that was distributed to 22 individuals and completed by 20 of them (2 academic teachers, 1 vocational instructor, 6 students, and 11…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
