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Information
About Action Research
Action
Research Projects
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What is
Action Research?
Action
Research, a scholarly approach to improve teaching and learning,
can be a central piece of professional development. This project-based
research can benefit professors, counselors, and librarians by actively
engaging them in the collaborative study of learning as it takes
place day by day in the context of their own practices. Through
this small-scale, practical research, faculty members can investigate
questions regarding student learning that directly impacts their
practices. At Valencia , action research has become a significant
aspect of faculty development, thereby reinforcing the College's
community of learners and culture of evidence.
Action
research can be described as a family of research methodologies
which pursue action (or change) and research (or understanding)
at the same time. In most of its forms it does this by using a cyclic
or spiral process which alternates between action and critical reflection
and in the later cycles, continuously refining methods, data and
interpretation in the light of the understanding developed in the
earlier cycles. -- Dick, Bob
(1999)
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