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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Action Research Powerpoint

Here's the excellent presentation from Kelly.

Action%2C%20Applied%20Research%20Ppnt.ppt

Thanks so much.

1 Comments:

At 6/27/2006 2:16 PM, Jeannine Hirtle said…

Thanks Kelly for an outstanding presentation! This gives such a nice overview of action research.

There's one point I'd like to focus on here--and that's the use of a treatment group and a non treatment group. This can be done, and is certainly a part of empirical research design, but we have more freedom than that in action or qualitative research.

There's also a bit of a moral/ethical dilemma which the researcher faces as he/she is administering the "treatment" to one group and the other would benefit from it, but it is withheld.

So for our purposes, and this is consistent with teacher research as well as other qualitative research, you do not have to have a "treatment" group.

You should still have a strict protocol-method of collecting data and analysis, and that should be specifically spelled out, but it is not necessary to have a "treatment" group.