Action Research Quiz

What is the purpose of Action Research methodology?

• To describe, analyze, and interpret the culture of a group over time.

• To solve a problem or to obtain information in order to inform local practice.

• To understand how and why educational theories and practices are developed.

• To interpret and understand social interactions.

What does Action Research want to solve?

• Day-to-day immediate problems.

• Group's shared beliefs, behaviors, and language.

• Relational hypothesis.

• Past failures and successes.

Action research is most appropriate when teachers...

• ...learn the participant views rather than imposing their own view of the situation.

• ...control for possible rival hypothesis or extraneous variables.

• ...try to correct something that is not working.

• ...learn how things were done in the past and apply them to current or future events.

What are the two main types of Action Research?

• Participatory Discussion

• Practical Action Research.

• Practical Action Investigation.

• Participatory Action Research.

Which is one purpose of Participatory Action Research?

• To improve practice in the short term as well as to inform larger issues.

• To establish an action plan.

• To provide holistic and systematic overview of the context.

• To empower individuals and groups to improve their lives.

Select one characteristic of Practical Action Research.

• To contextualize and annotate data.

• To analyze the previous information or events minutely and testing their validity.

• To practice causal inferences.

• To implement changes based on the findings.

What are three types of data to consider in Action Research?

• Analysis of documents, questionnaires, and records.

• Check lists, observations, and surveys.

• Observations, interviews, and analysis of documents.

• Anecdotal data, surveys, and interviews.

Select three advantages of Action Research.

• It can help teachers identify problems and issues systematically.

• It can improve educational practice to become more competent professionals .

• Identifying problems with existing designs.

• Researchers can develop more effective ways to practice their work.

Select one limitation for Action Research?

• It is more difficult to determine the validity and reliability of linguistic data.

• Some Action Research studies are not scientific.

• It is not advisable to big populations.

• Not quantitative work, but can lead up to quantitative research.

In the internal validity, the study can suffer from...

• ...time consuming.

• ...data limited.

• ...strengthens validity.

• ...data collector bias.