http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/resined/actionresearch/arhome.htm
This website is arranged with questions about action research followed by answers that clarify what it is and how it should be conducted. A good basic resource.
Age: For college students
Action Research for Science Educators
http://www.drawntoscience.org/educators/action-research/index.html
This site has great resources, definitions, and examples of action research projects that I think would be very helpful to the novice researcher in any educational discipline/content area.
Age: For college students
Educating as Inquiry
http://www.lupinworks.com/ar/change.html
A website that collects different teachers' views and works on action research. There are so many helpful links on this site. It's a great resource for the teacher who wants to engage in mindful inquiry.
Age: For college students
Student Action Research for University Access
http://sarua.ed.qut.edu.au/
From Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, this project involves high school students in doing action research in their schools and communities. It's a great look at the potential for using AR to effect social change.
Age: For high school/college students
Action Research Primer
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=46698&concordeid=69527
This book by Patricia H. Hinchey contains the basics and ins and outs of conducting action research projects. I plan to use this book with my own classes starting in the fall.
Age: For college students
Participatory Action Research
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230910
This book written by Alice McIntyre is an introduction to action research, a review of its basic principles, and a guidebook that could be used for starting projects. If I don't like the Hinchey book, I will give this one a go.
Age: For college students
Action Research
http://arj.sagepub.com/
A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal from SAGE. This is a great source for examples of action research studies as well as a prime source to publish such work.
Age: For college students
Educational Action Research
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09650792.asp
A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal from Taylor & Francis. This is a great source for examples of educational action research studies as well as a good place to publish such work.
Age: For college students
Center for Collaborative Action Research
http://cadres.pepperdine.edu/ccar/projects.school.html
A website that contains information about AR projects done by Masters of Arts students at Pepperdine University. The portfolios show work done with elementary, high school, and college students.
Age: For college students
Undergraduate Action Research Projects
http://educationprogram.duke.edu/Research/Student-Action-Research
These are online videos of PowerPoint presentations done by education students from Duke University. These are good models for what a final presentation should look like and contain.
Age: For college students
UW Action Research Projects
http://www.aimcenterseattle.org/action-research-projects
These are pictures of posters made for presentations done by University of Washington graduate students as part of their action research work. These are also good models for students who have to produce posters for presentation.
Age: For high school/college students
Research Report Format
http://uacoe.arizona.edu/short/Syllabi/Research%20Report%20Format.pdf
This site is a PDF file that spells out all the sections that go into a research paper. I feel like it is a great model that beginning writers would benefit from using. Written by Kathy Short.
Age: For high school/college students
APA Formatting and Style Page
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/16/
From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab comes this helpful resource to APA 6th edition Style, which is the reference style used in the majority of educational research.
Age: For high school/college students
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
An online resource that has information about writing from sentences to paragraphs to various formats. It also has frequently asked questions sections that can help with common questions (like, When do you use affect/effect?) and other mechanical issues. The site is text heavy, and I think it would work better for older readers/writers.
Age: For high school/college students
Participatory Action Research Guidelines
http://research.utk.edu/forms_docs/human_subjects_action.pdf
From the Human Subjects Office at the University of Tennessee, this form spells out the guidelines for doing ethical and approved action research while being a university student or faculty.
Age: For college students and professors
Sterg I really like your variety of websites. When I came into the program I only heard about the horrors of action research and did not know really what to expect. I think you have a lot of great sites that can help introduce as well as look at examples of AR. I also LOVED the grammar page because I know it was a big issue but we did not really have anything to reference in terms of grammar. I think it is also great you're going to use that book with your class ... as a post intern I can say that the pre interns do need as much information as they can get about AR so they are prepared for what is ahead .... good job :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice compilation of very useful sites. Being a big proponent of action research, I believe, it is something all educators should consider. Who else, but the people in the field (so to speak), know what works the best for their students. Plus, the constant search for a better way to teach is what defines a well-rounded teacher.
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