Action Research

After studying this week on Action Research I realize how it can be very beneficial in public education. Action Research is used by principals, as well as, superintendents and teachers, to gather data through group research to solve problems or gain knowledge about a program to make it more efficient or beneficial. Action research may be used by a group of grade level teacher who are able to work together to gather data about specific student behaviors occuring in their specific grade. Those teachers can use the information to better the behavior and create a better overall climate for that grade level. Those same teachers may gather data on how to minimize behavior in the classroom that causes students to be off-task. Principal can utilize action research to help parents become more involved in their child's school situation as well as their child's life.
My plan to use action research will include a group of teachers who will be able to communicate with various teachers of different grade levels to gather data on respect for others/adults and how that affects test scores. I plan on creating a rubric for teachers to use to rate random students on how they feel the student-to-teacher respect is shown and then compare those "scores" to STAAR/TAKS/CBA scores .


Educational leaders can use blogs for comunication with their staff. It can be used to relay information back and forth between leader and staff but also it can be a place where different groups can share information and allow the leader to add comments and suggestions.