Home     Leadership     Partners   Initiatives     Resources     Teacher Pipelines     UEC Projects     Contact Us
Virtual Curriculum Action Research

Action Research in Urban Schools

Contributed by Beth Berghoff, IUPUI

This module presents a description of action research and shows examples of teachers doing action research. Participants are walked through the action research process with multiple buttons that provide more explanation and examples. The final segment includes videos of school groups involved in action research.

The module is written in HTML and is set up for open access (no registration or password required). click here

How do I use the action research module?

The module is divided into four main parts and designed for study in the following sequence:

  1. Teacher Stories - accounts of action research written by teacher researchers.
  2. The Action Research Process - the action research process in depth.
  3. Action Research for School Change - accounts of action research projects conducted by collaborative school groups.
  4. Designing an Action Research Project - a guide to planning your own action research project.

As you proceed through each part of the module, participants are asked to write Bulletin Board Postings. These written responses help to solidify learning and serve as public traces of involvement in this module. Posting may also lead to exchanges with other learners.

Work on this module can be accomplished on the participant's timeframe. (To get credit for the module, acceptable responses must be posted on all four parts of the module.)

The UEC web is maintained by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education.
Disclaimer: Notwithstanding any language to the contrary, nothing contained herein constitutes, nor is intended to constitute, an offer, inducement, promise, or contract of any kind. The data contained herein are for informational purposes only and are not represented to be error free. Any links to non-UAB information are provided as a courtesy. They are not intended to constitute, nor do they constitute, an endorsement of the linked materials by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.