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Elizabeth Severson-Irby; Hillary Parkhouse – Teachers College Record, 2025
Background: Professional development (PD), in general, helps teachers enhance their knowledge and skills. Equity-focused PD specifically helps educators understand how personal biases, power structures, and social structures impact their teaching and the larger educational system. Research suggests that incorporating new teaching practices is a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Action Research, Culturally Relevant Education, Expertise
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Karen Venturini; Guido Capaldo; Federica Palazzi; Chiara Amatori; Amos Capicchioni – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the effectiveness of action learning (AL) in PA education through the action research (AR). Public administration (PA) requires training paths for its officials aimed at developing managerial skills. Training designers must construct pathways that identify goals and results to be obtained. Most importantly, they…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Public Administration Education, Action Research, Training
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Margaret Spencer; Susan Collings; Hannah Wilkinson – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Parents with intellectual disability experience high rates of child removal, which affects their well-being. Method: Participatory action research (PAR) was undertaken with eight parents with intellectual disability who had children removed from their care. Parents were interviewed before and after the PAR. Three themes emerged: a safe…
Descriptors: Grief, Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Child Welfare
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Ben H. J. Smit; Jacobiene A. Meirink; Dineke E. H. Tigelaar; Amanda K. Berry; Wilfried F. Admiraal – Educational Action Research, 2024
This study focuses on pre-service teachers' views of the conditions that foster their participatory action research practices in secondary schools and on how these conditions can inform the development of a teacher education program for a participatory approach. By using the "Theory of Practice Architectures" as an analytical lens, eight…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Action Research
Lamar Cleon Edmonds – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this professional practice dissertation (PPD) was to examine and provide Department of Defense Education Activity Schools practical and real-world solutions with regards to continuous improvement within its educational equity program. This process was examined and analyzed through a qualitative action research approach and design…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Cultural Awareness, Elementary School Teachers, Efficiency
Delilah Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this action research study was to investigate and improve the school choice experience for students in a large urban school district on the East Coast. Participants in Cycle 1 were comprised of middle and high school staff, and data was collected via surveys, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. Action steps included…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Action Research, Urban Schools
Zachary R. Dane – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this Action Research study was to understand and enhance the perceived efficacy of micro-credentialing and digital badging for K-12 educators within a large urban school district. Cycle 1 of this research engaged over 150 educators and included 14 semi-structured interviews, seeking to identify the primary reasons for engaging…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Recognition (Achievement), Program Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers
Rebecca Ann Chapman – Online Submission, 2024
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the proactive concept of creating a student-focused learning environment that meets students' variable needs. This qualitative phenomenological study interviewed five active graduate education faculty members on their knowledge and resource support with UDL initiatives. Findings included a variety of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Graduate School Faculty
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Nadia Swanepoel; Kakoma Luneta – Perspectives in Education, 2024
This empirical paper reports on the development of a professional development initiative, namely the word sum-wheel, which teachers developed collaboratively. The study's objective was to determine how teachers' mathematics word problem-solving instruction could be enhanced through the development of the word-sum wheel using participatory action…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Riashna Sithaldeen – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2024
Academic advising, if done effectively, can play a significant role in supporting student retention. However, as a relatively new field in South Africa, there is limited locally contextualised research into advising interventions and their effectiveness. So, there is a need for evidence-based approaches that will lead to more intentionally…
Descriptors: Action Research, Grounded Theory, Program Evaluation, Correlation
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C. Nadine Wathen; James Shelley; Makayla N. Gomes; Aya Mohamed; Jennifer C. D. MacGregor – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Finding ways to move knowledge-to-impact is a key priority for research funding agencies, universities, and academics. However, academic engagement with the broader community is not without tensions and challenges, including arriving at mutual benefit and relevance, and addressing power dynamics and often incompatible communication practices. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, College Faculty
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Joe Barrett; Daniel B. Robinson; William Walters – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Sport- and physical activity-related participatory action research (PAR) often involves voluntary partnerships spanning institutions, organizations, and jurisdictions. Negotiating and maintaining multi-stakeholder and multi-jurisdictional research partnerships can be likened to a delicate balancing act fraught with potential challenges and strains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Undergraduate Students, Physical Education