ACTION RESEARCH involves and his group members sharing concern with everyday practical problems encountered by teachers and perhaps students. Broadly, action research can be divided into three types :
1. Participatory Action Research - an alternative form of social research
2. Critical Action Research - one that involves mixed groups of participants from
various sectors
3. Classroom Action Research - (Henry & McTaggart 1996, p.6)
Action research is a cyclic project involving PLANNING, ACTION AND OBSERVATION, REFLECTION and EVALUATION. It aims at a big concern - to attain meaningful professional development for the researchers involved in particular and improvement in educational situations in general, through systematic and strategic research methodologies. Most often than not, action research involves a triangular process of three parties - teacher, observer and students. In action research, each act (planning, action and observation, reflection and evaluation) is called a spiral. The researcher will move to the next spiral after the plan has been revised so to achieve more attainable or intended results.
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