Chuck Baker 's List: Action Research

National Council for the Social Studies

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Development

"contains links to the U.S. government's education databases (including ERIC). It also makes available full-text reports on current findings on education.  In addition, it provides linkis to research offices and organizations, as well as research publications and products."

"contains statistical reports and other information on the condition of U.S. education.  It also reports on education activities internationally."

"provides an up-to-date list of journals and newsletters available on the Internet on any subject."

"Full-text articles from Education Week, a periodical devoted to education reform, schools, and policy, are available.  In addition to current and past articles, the site provides background data to enhance current news, resources for teachers, and recommended web sites..."

testing,evaluation, and public policy studies on school assessment practices and international comparative research.

"a database with brief descriptive information about articles from more than 17,000 multi-disciplinary journals."

This action reasearch website is created by the Ohio Literacy Resource Center for Enhancing Adult Literacy, written by Nancy and Gary Padak.  Literacy is near and dear to my heart and since I am heading down that avenue for my action research I felt I should give their website a look.  Their section on collecting data was especially helpful as I think about information that can help answer my questions.

This site was developed by Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University with Project Site Support, which is a teacher training and development program. The site itself isn't too easy to work with, but it contains some good information, especially where developing questions and actually beginning the research is concerned.

This article describes how a cohort of Language Other Than English (LOTE) teachers used action research as a professional development tool to improve their practice. The steps they took were thinking, acting, reflecting, and rethinking. The article is an excellent resource for how to format an action research project, so that it is productive and practice-improving. 

This article defines action research, its purpose, and the importance of teacher-driven research. The article quotes Wolfe's statement, "Teachers often leave a mark on their students, but rarely leave a mark on their profession" (Wolfe, 1989), and describes the possible effects that action research can have on the teaching profession.

This resource is good because it describes the steps of action research, but I wouldn’t recommend it because it doesn’t go far enough to support the researcher.

This site is a little interesting... it has different categories with articles describing the category.  Things like What is Action research, History, Validity, etc.

This site contains full text articles and abstracts about Teacher Action research.

Since I learn by example, I like this site too. It belongs to a different school district and gives a little info on action research but also has a few examples. In fact, there is a completed action research project similar to what I'd like to do myself. It focuses on the lack of knowledge of basic math facts in upper elementary students and how a computer program called FASTT may help. I've never heard of the program but enjoyed reading about it!