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Pineda, Hedeliza; Lorca, Anne; Cortes, Sylvester; Gador, Sunliegh; Mangompit, Rowanne Marie; Pacaldo, Frances Jay; Lorca, Elven – Advanced Education, 2022
Anchored on Evans' professional development (PD) model, this study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate a professional development program on designing participatory action research (PAR) projects for basic education teachers. The teachers are from Junior and Senior High School teaching English, Mathematics, and Science. The PD program…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Design, Participatory Research, Action Research
Emily Edwards – English Australia Journal, 2018
This article reports on findings from a qualitative study in the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) context which explored teachers' experiences and their managers' perceptions of teacher participation in the Cambridge Assessment English/English Australia Action Research in ELICOS program. Despite previously reported…
Descriptors: English Learners, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Initiating an Action Research Programme for University EFL Teachers: Early Experiences and Responses
Burns, Anne; Westmacott, Anne; Ferrer, Antonieta Hidalgo – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2016
Accounts of how teacher educators begin to plan, develop, and support action research programmes for language teachers are rare, as are descriptions of the responses of the teachers who participate. This article documents and analyses the initial processes of introducing and supporting a new programme of action research for language teachers at…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Zehetmeier, Stefan; Andreitz, Irina; Erlacher, Willibald; Rauch, Franz – Educational Action Research, 2015
This paper deals with the topic of professional development programmes' impact. Concepts and ideas of action research, constructivism, and systems theory are used as a theoretical framework and are combined to describe and analyse an exemplary professional development programme in Austria. Empirical findings from both quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Action Research, Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Qualitative Research
Conti, Maria; LaMance, Rachel; Miller-Cochran, Susan – Composition Forum, 2017
To address the needs and interests of primary stakeholders in a writing program, this article presents a model of "grassroots" assessment that involves instructors from all ranks as well as students in the development, facilitation, and interpretation of assessment results. The authors describe two assessment plans that measured student…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Needs Assessment, Stakeholders, Student Needs
Hahs Brinkley, Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Without education, many South Sudanese will continue living in poverty. There are numerous factors that limit their educational opportunities including tribal warfare, colonialism, missionary malpractice, civil wars, a high illiteracy rate, low government funding, and threats of war. These factors have left a substantial deficiency in available…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Interviews, Observation, Sampling
Tragoulia, Eleni; Strogilos, Vasilis – Educational Action Research, 2013
This study discusses the results of a collaborative action research project in a multi-disciplinary school for children with disabilities. The aim was to alter practices and views of the professionals concerned in order to promote the inclusion of four children in mainstream schools. Three interrelated programmes were designed and implemented over…
Descriptors: Action Research, Disabilities, Special Schools, Foreign Countries
Banegas, Dario Luis – Educational Action Research, 2011
In this article I investigate the process of an in-service programme for English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers in Argentina started in 2007. Teachers began to feel uneasy about the EFL curriculum for secondary education at the time, feeling that something should be done to develop a participatory curriculum to be implemented in the future.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Spigelmyer, Frances Erickson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This qualitative study via an action research design explored adjunct faculty pedagogical perceptions at Butler County Community College (BC3) in Butler, Pennsylvania. Based on a preliminary study by the researcher, adjunct survey data was analyzed to determine if there was a need for pedagogy training and, if so, what adjuncts believed that…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Needs
McLaren, Susan V. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2012
This paper describes an action research, school situated project conducted with partnership funding from Learning and Teaching Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority and Becta, the UK government's agency for communications technology in education. Based on "e-scape" (e-solutions for creative assessment in portfolio environments),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Feedback (Response), Program Effectiveness
Hamilton, Tiffany Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study documents the effects of an action research team, comprising parents, teachers, and school staff, from a predominately African-American elementary school, working together to design a program promoting high school completion for their young students. The study also examines the role that collaboration plays to bring together…
Descriptors: High Schools, Action Research, Focus Groups, Graduation
MacKeogh, Kay; Fox, Seamus – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2009
This paper addresses the question: how can e-learning be embedded in traditional universities so that it contributes to the transformation of the university? The paper examines e-learning strategies in higher education, locating the institutional context within the broader framework of national and international policy drivers which link…
Descriptors: On Campus Students, Higher Education, Action Research, Distance Education
Copper, Linda Royahn – 1990
Teacher researchers may be the essential link between the philosophy and training of higher education and the grass roots implementation at the public school level. The Teacher-Researcher (T-R) Institute has the potential of providing a catalyst for role change and a channel for research in action. This paper describes the merits and defaults of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Zitlow, Connie Swartz – 1987
The Teaching Excellence Program, designed to promote faculty use of practice-centered inquiry, was conducted at a large research university (Ohio State). The program was based on a conceptualization of practice-centered inquiry that draws on action research, reflection-in-action, and action science ideas. Data collected throughout the program…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Inquiry
Noffke, Susan E.; Zeichner, Kenneth M. – 1987
This report on action research projects conducted by student teachers as a part of their preservice teacher preparation program focuses on how action research improves the understanding of educational practices by the practitioner-researchers themselves. Two major topics are discussed. First, specific types of claims about the impact of action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Development
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