This week I have learned that there are many phases to action research. I feel that as a teacher, I always am coming up with action research topics but not doing a formal report on my findings. In a way too, it seems that a lot of the questions that are faced seem to be overblown to an extent since I do not see the need to sit and ponder into great time lengths to come up with a decision. I did like the point being made that if there is a concern that you have, go look up the question in Google or something to see if others have been faced with the same issue and if they were able to come up with a solution. I think that technology can aid the process of action research by coming up with solutions quickly, but technology can also be overused to do too much thinking into the matter. An example of this is that at my district, we are required to review and re-record the data of our students on mini TAKS quizzes to get a breakdown and to do an analysis on each quiz. The system that we use already does all of this for us but we are having to spend time to recreate the wheel when our time should be spent on making improvements on our findings. I do think that action research is a good tool to use but a minor tool not an important necessity for the job.
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