Describes the action research process and provides practical guidelines for using the process to improve the education of children with disabilities and increase parental involvement. Laying the groundwork for action research, recruiting parents to participate in the research, and involving parents in each step are discussed. (CR)

Distinguishes two types of materials evaluation: a predictive evaluation designed to make a decision regarding what materials to use, and a retrospective evaluation to examine materials already used. Describes a procedure for conducting task evaluations, suggesting that they constitute a kind of action research that can contribute to reflective…

Discusses strategies to help primary students understand geometric concepts. Highlights best examples, concept cards, defining shapes, discovery lessons, and expository lessons. Presents action research ideas. (JRH)

Provides an historical perspective of the popular topics that have influenced science education during the past quarter century and reviews current international debate on scientific literacy and science pedagogy. Suggests that there is still considerable cause for concern for school science curriculum and sociopolitical action needs to be taken.…

Introduces action research as a tool for use in religious education that can be employed by congregationally based educators. States that action research as an educational strategy suggests that educators engage in a cycle of observing, reflecting, planning, and acting. Includes references. (CMK)

Describes an action research project aiming to improve student understanding of decimal numbers through an instrument. (YDS)

Explores how students in a boy's English secondary school display aggressive traits. Devises an intervention program centered on human rights. Concludes that the school fails to build meaningful relationships among its members, students, and staff; offers little opportunity to shape the institutions rules; and that rigid discipline reduces…

Describes initial results of a collaborative action research endeavor between a university and a magnet school (grade 6 level) using learning environments research to monitor alignment of classroom learning activities with a constructivist viewpoint while integrating technology into the curriculum. Discusses use of the Constructivist Learning…

This article discusses an action research project that targeted the social interaction skills of seven students (ages 5-7) with autism. Through group games at recess and award stickers each day for playing the games, children increased their participation in the games, learned new games, and demonstrated good sportsmanship. (Contains 10…

The Tomorrow's Leaders Today program in rural Iowa promotes the development of multicommunity clusters within which communities cooperate. The leadership development curriculum focuses on action learning/action research and on the three elements of making personal contact, building group identity, and becoming organized. (SK)

A description is given of the Teaching Excellence Program, designed to explore the usefulness of action research (called practice-centered inquiry in this program). Seventeen higher education faculty participated in the program, whose major components were 15 biweekly workshops/seminars and individual projects designed and carried out by each…

The theoretical framework, methodology, findings, and implications for three studies which explored the relationship between adult development, collaborative action research, and instructional supervision are discussed. Each study concluded that educators define and practice supervision in qualitatively different ways depending upon their own…

Two major contradictions found in the "Deakin view" of action research are identified and discussed. These contradictions are characterized by the tension between individual and cultural/collective action in action research; and the tension between technical and practical conceptions and culturally based conceptions of the nature of…

Union response to unemployment in Britain has been the development of Trade Union Congress Centres for the Unemployed. In partnership with university adult education programs, day schools and residential courses are being offered. Universities' education and research role provides a forum for unemployed activists to contribute to the policy…

Presents a case study of how action research can be used to design a career development program based on the principles of change used in organization development. Steps in the model are data collection, analysis, feedback, program draft, recommendations, and evaluation. (CH)