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Lampkin, Latasha R. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2023
The present study aimed to examine the effect of collaborative practices among teachers on student achievement in state-tested science courses. Using an action research model, the author planned, implemented, and evaluated the effect of teachers collaborating in PLCs in science classes in a rural school district. Prior to the study, teachers in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Science Teachers, Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Ferreira, Maria Eduarda; Pitarma, Rui – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2021
Deforestation is a global issue. Education has a fundamental role to play in this context. In this regard, the direction and effectiveness of educational practices should focus on the empowerment of students in ecocentric environmental attitudes. A key point in education for environmental sustainability is pedagogical approaches focused on the…
Descriptors: Forestry, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking
Blake, Janette; Gibson, Alaster – Educational Action Research, 2021
This article reports on the professional benefits of using Critical Friends Group discussion protocols within a Collaborative Action Research project facilitated by two teacher-educators with four junior secondary school teachers in New Zealand. The teachers were encouraged to conduct Action Research projects on topics of their own choice.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Junior High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Friendship
Coker, David – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the roles, perspectives, and actions of teachers and students for first-time-detained juvenile delinquents by examining a reading intervention for a student. Using an action research methodology, the reading intervention was explored within the broader context of the history and operations of the juvenile…
Descriptors: Action Research, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Teacher Attitudes
Hunzicker, Jana – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
This article shares a first-hand account of an action research project conducted in a college-level early adolescent development course to better understand written and verbal reflection as learning tools, improve the author's teaching effectiveness, and foster reflective habits in pre-service teachers. The article includes a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Narration, Teaching Methods, Early Adolescents
Wiley, Adrienne; McKernan, Jonathan – New Educator, 2017
In the context of our work as literacy specialists, we taught teachers to use sentence frames to support ELL students' writing. We then studied the impact of their instruction on students. Our analysis of student writing samples revealed no group wide developmental trends so we posed deeper questions about their work using the data analysis…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Second Language Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Writing Models
Beal, Jennifer S. – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2018
Data-driven instruction is simply good educational practice. In the deaf education certification program--which confers master's degrees in education at Valdosta State University, Georgia, through a variety of online options--the professors address this issue directly with graduate students, all of whom are teacher candidates. One of the ways they…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Action Research, Educational Practices, Deafness
Hung, Yu-ju; Chen, Shu-cheng; Samuelson, Beth Lewis – TESOL Journal, 2016
Role-play is an oral classroom activity that has been promoted to provide young learners with opportunities to practice English in meaningful contexts. To familiarize elementary students with this group task, to encourage them to pay attention to their peers' performances, and to replace traditional paper-and-pencil modes of evaluating speaking…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Oral English, Role Playing, Group Activities
Reynolds, Todd – Studying Teacher Education, 2016
During my English Language Arts methods class, I noticed that my discussion patterns were teacher-focused and in an Initiation-Response-Evaluation format. Because I wanted to model dialogic methods of whole-class discussions for my preservice teachers, I recoiled from this finding and began a self-study using an action research method to examine…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Language Arts, Methods Courses, Classroom Communication
Foulger, Teresa S.; Zambo, Debby – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
This action research study involves two cycles of investigation of Research Day an event at the end of each semester where doctoral students share their latest cycle of action research focused on a problem of practice they are facing. The study sought to understand students' perspectives of Research Day in terms of its instructional intention, how…
Descriptors: Action Research, Student Attitudes, Investigations, Doctoral Programs
Larson, Lisa; Dixon, Temoca; Townsend, Dianna – Voices from the Middle, 2013
The purpose for this action research study was to answer the question: "How can we enhance students' active engagement with academic vocabulary in social studies classes?" In this article, the authors share the strategies they developed through their research that proved most effective in engaging middle school students with active academic…
Descriptors: Action Research, Social Studies, Vocabulary Development, Classroom Techniques
Shweikeh, Eman – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Over the past 50 years, considerable research has been dedicated to chemistry education. In evaluating principal chemistry courses in higher education, educators have noted the learning process for first-year general chemistry courses may be challenging. The current study investigated perceptions of faculty, students and administrators on…
Descriptors: College Science, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Action Research
Chien, Chiu-Kuei Chang; Yu, Kuo-Jen; Lin, Lung-Chi – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2013
Action research allows teachers to evaluate and gain insight into their own practices in their teaching contexts through reflection, and inquire into ways to improve their practices and student learning outcomes. This study is a reflective self-inquiry in which the research team engages in a deliberate and retrospective analysis of the principal…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Educational Practices, Reflection, Inquiry
Amundsen, Cheryl; Wilson, Mary – Review of Educational Research, 2012
This is a conceptual review of the literature variously referred to as faculty development, educational development, instructional development, and academic development in higher education. Previous empirical reviews covering more than 30 years of published literature could draw only tentative and weak conclusions about the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty Development, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods
Barczi, Krisztina – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2013
Teaching how to solve problems--from solving simple equations to solving difficult competition tasks--has been one of the greatest challenges for mathematics education for many years. Trying to find an effective method is an important educational task. Among others, the question arises as to whether a method in which students help each other might…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Mathematics Instruction