Updated 9/11/03
Action Research
Action
research is a systematic form of inquiry that is collective, collaborative,
self-reflective, critical, and undertaken by the participants of the inquiry
[McCutcheon, G. & Jung, B. (1990). Alternative perspectives on action
research. Theory into Practice 29 (3): 144-151]. Action research,
sometimes called "practitioner research," is a reflective
investigation of a personal interest, problem or challenge. The process
begins with the development of questions, which may be answered by the
collection of data. Action implies that the practitioner will be acting as the
collector of data, the analyst, and the interpreter of results.
See An Introduction to Action Research - by Dan MacIsaac
- Acerca de los Valores Socio-Culturales - "El propósito de esta página es promover el estudio, la reflexión y la discusión acerca de los valores sociales y culturales en el contexto de la educación y de la investigación cualitativa. Este es un espacio dedicado especialmente a educadores, investigadores, padres, estudiantes y otros profesionales interesados en el área socio-educativa."
- Action Evaluation Research Institute
- Action Research - "This handbook is about how to use action research in workplace education programs. It was based on a project funded by the National Literacy Secretariat and is crafted around the idea that action research can help change literacy practices in teaching and learning. The main thrust of the resource illustrates how an instructor can actually become a researcher."
- Action Research - Massey University
- Action Research - NSDC Library
- Action Research - Queen's University
- Action Research and Social Movement : A Challenge for Policy Research - Stephen Kemmis
- Action Research Assignment (Fall 98), Queen's University, Faculty of Education
- Action Research at Queen's University - This site provides access to a range of materials from action research activities in preservice and graduate programs of the Faculty of Education at Queen's University.
- Action Research at Queen's University
- Action Research books - Maintained by Bob Dick
- Action Research-by Rob McBride and John Schostak
- Action Research Electronic Reader - Editor Ian Hughes
- Action Research in Language Education - by Dvid Nunan
- Action Research International - Maintained by Bob Dick
- Action Research Methodology - by Rory O'Brien
- Action Research Network - Australian Curriculum Studies Association Inc.
- Action Research Network (ARNet) Listserv
- Action Research Network, Ireland - To provide a network of contacts for those involved in action research, action learning and organisational learning in Ireland
- Action Research newsletter - The National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP), located at Education Development Center, Inc., was funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs from 1992-1998 to promote the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities.
- Action Research on Community-Managed Water Supply - Disseminating results of the Participatory Action Research on the Role of Communities in the Management of Improved Rural Water Supplies in Developing Countries
- Action Research Papers - Maintained by Bob Dick
- Action Research Reading List - Allan Feldman
- Action Research Resources - Southern Cross University
- Action Research Rresources - Maintained by Bob Dick
- Action Research: Jack Whitehead's Homepage - University of Bath
- Action Research: Something For Everyone - by Gregory Hadley
- AEA TIG on Collaborative, Participatory, & Empowerment Evaluation
- American Anthtropological Association's Anthropology Resources on the Internet Web Page
- American Educational Research Association
- American Evaluation Association - Home Page
- An action research approach to curriculum development - Phil Riding, Sue Fowell and Phil Levy, Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- An Action Research Bibliography - Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver
- Analysis Software for Word-based Records - "AnSWR is a software system for coordinating and conducting large-scale, team-based analysis projects that integrate qualitative and quantitative techniques."
- Andrew Bennett's Case Study Method and Qualitative Research Page - Andrew Bennett, Department of Government Georgetown University
- AnnoTape - the solution for recording, analysing & transcribing audio, video, image and text data for qualitative research
- AnSWR Software:
- Applied Research Center - Oakland, CA, The Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
- AR theses and dissertations - This page is maintained by Bob Dick
- AR work in progress - This page is maintained by Bob Dick
- Areol - Action research and evaluation on line. This page is maintained by Bob Dick
- Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group - "Our purpose is to provide a forum for the conduct, examination and advancement of arts-based approaches to educational research. Our aim is to promote discussion about the conduct and theory of such research, to provide members of the SIG with opportunities for the critical analysis of such research and to advance theories of practice and knowing that support such research."
- Association pour la recherche qualitative (ARQ) - "Bien que l’Association pour la Recherche Qualitative (ARQ) voit officiellement le jour le 10 mai 1985, sa naissance est la conséquence du succès remporté par deux colloques antérieurs, en 1983, sur Les alternatives aux plans expérimentaux dans la mise à l’épreuve d’hypothèses en éducation et en 1984 sur Objets et méthodologies en recherche qualitative."
- Bibliography of Sources for Doing Phenomenological Research - by Jeffrey Compton
- Bridges: Mixed Methods Network for Behavioral, Social, and Health Research - Florida International University
- CAIN Project: Templegrove Action Research Limited - The Templegrove Action Research Limited operated from 1994 to 1996
- CARE - Centre for Applied Research in Education University of East Anglia
- CARN Collaborative Action Research Network - CARN is now hosted by the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University
- CARPP - Center for Action Research in Professional Practice - The University of Bath
- CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) EZ-Text - a software program developed to assist researchers create, manage, and analyze semi-structured qualitative databases.
- Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
- Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life - University of Michigan
- Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice - University of Bath
- Centre for Applied Research in Education University of East Anglia
- Centre for Arts-informed Research - The Centre for Arts-informed Research was established in April 2000. The Centre's mission is to articulate, explore, and support alternative forms of qualitative research and representation which infuse elements, processes, and forms of the arts into scholarly work.
- Centre of Qualitative Research - University of Aarhus
- Classroom Action Research - Madison Metropolitan School District
- Cochrane Qualitative Methods Group & Campbell Process Implementation Methods Group
- Collaborative Action Research - Linda Polin
- Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)
- Colorado State University's English Department's Guides to Social Science and Qualitative Research (Includes sections on Ethnography, Observational Research and Narrative Inquiry, and Case Studies)
- Community Psychology Net - Community Psychology Network is created by Matthew J. Cook & WDBC
- Comparative Methods, Small N, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-sets (fs/QCA) International Resource Site
- Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)
- Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods (CQRM)
- Conversation Analysis.net - This website is a national resource for scholars and students of conversation and interaction analysis in Denmark. MOVIN (Microanalysis Of Verbal/non-Verbal/Visual INteraction) is the Danish network for scholars of interaction analysis.
- Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
- Creating Possibilities-An Action Research Handbook - Observation Methods for Action Research Projects
- Cyberanthropology.org - Cyberanthropology is a resource center for students, researchers and lecturers in anthropology who have an interest for cyberculture.
- Cybersoc: Sociological and Ethnographic Research of Cyberspace
- Discourse and Rhetoric Group - Loughborough University
- Don Ratcliff's Qualitative Research Resources
- Duquesne University Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research
- Electronic Resources for Information Research Methods - University of Sheffield, UK.
- Environmental Indicators Project - Pacific Institute, The neighborhood Environmental Indicators Project (EIP) provides science-based information on environmental and social conditions at the neighborhood level.
- ETHNO/CA NEWS - ETHNO/CA NEWS offers information on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
- Ethnographics Laboratory- The Ethnographics Laboratory is a teaching, research and archival facility for new media at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California
- Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section-in-Formation of the American Sociological Association
- Evaluation - The Australasian Evaluation Society
- Event Structure Analysis (ESA) Home Page - Ethno 2 is an on-line Java program that helps you analyze sequential events.
- Facilitating and Supporting Action Research by Teachers and Principals - Jackie Delong, Paper presented at the International Conference.
- Field Methods - FIELD METHODS, a refereed journal, publishes articles on methods for studying human thought and human behavior. Research articles show the development of new methods or new uses for existing methods. The Short Takes section contains articles with handy tips for working in the field. FIELD METHODS also publishes reviews of books and software, and think pieces addressing key theoretical issues.
- Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung - FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research.
- Gary Shank's Home Page
- Grounded Theory References - Teori Beralas
- Guidelines for Planning Action Research Projects - Ohio Literacy Resource Center
- Guiding School Improvement with Action Research - by Richard Sagor
- Harald Klein's Page of Textual Analysis Resources - (Germany) Since January 1st, 2003, Intext is public domain software.
- HEPROC - Higher Education Processes network. HEPROC is a community of 2200 educators in 40 countries, serving each other as networking partners.
- How to Do Ethnographic Research: A Simplified Guide - by Barbara L. Hall
- HyperRESEARCH - ResearchWare Home Page - "This is the home page for HyperRESEARCH, a user-friendly software tool for qualitative data analysis."
- Idea Works - program for qualitative analysis of unstructured data.
- IDRC Evaluation Unit - International Development Research Centre, Ottawa
- Initial Activities in Implementing an Action Research Project - Rory O’Brien
- Institute of Finance Case Research
- International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
- Internet Resources for Participatory Action Research Sites - Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology Goshen College
- Interpersonal Process Recall - Craig S. Cashwell
- Intro to Action Research Abstracts 1990-97
- ISWORLD Qualitative Research in Information Systems - This page is sponsored by the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Jack Whitehead's Action Research Homepage
- Lawrence Hammar's Methods Man Page - Learn how to take an ethnographic approach to research questions.
- LOKA Institute - The Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
- MandE (Monitoring & Evaluation) News - A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development projects and programmes with social development objectives.
- Mary Stokrocki's Home Page - Information about USSEA, a society of art educators who share interests in multicultural and cross-cultural concerns in art education with others in the nation and in the world.
- MERLin--the Multimedia Ethnographic Laboratory in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia
- Narrative Psychology: An Internet Guide
- National Institutes of Health Cultural and Qualitative Research Interest Group
- Network for Research on Experiential Psychotherapies (NREP) - NREP is a website devoted to the purpose of stimulating research on experiential/ humanistic psychotherapies.
- Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research - This is the first on-line journal dedicated to teacher research.
- Occasional Pieces in Acrtion Research Methodology - Bob Dick (1998) Introduction. Occasional pieces in action research methodology, Introductory paper.
- Online Action Research (OAR)
- Open Semiotics Research Center - The purpose of this site is to provide innovative, responsible and reliable knowledge in a variety of domains relevant to semiotics understood as the multidisciplinary study of information, meaning, communication, interpretation, sign systems and evolution, texts, interactions, organizations, cultural and social transformations, sense-making and all other topics that may emerge from future research, models and theories.
- Pam Lomax's Action Research Homepage
- PARNET The Participatory Action Research Network out of Cornell University. By far the biggest collection of resources and a very good source of information.
- Participation Group - Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Through the work of the Participation Group, the Institute of Development Studies serves as a global centre for research, innovation and learning in citizen participation and participatory approaches to development.
- Participatory Action Research and People's Participation: Introduction and Case Studies - by Gerrit Huizer
- Third World Centre, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Participatory Research & Community Organizing - By Sung Sil Lee Sohng, Ph.D. A working paper presented at The New Social Movement and Community Organizing Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. November 1-3., 1995
- Paths of Learning - An Online Action Guide to "Holistic And Practical Uses for Educational Research"
- Participatory Action Research Sites
- PARticipatory FEMinism (PARFEM) - Selected Writings on Feminisms and Action Research
- Pendahuluan Metoda Teori Beralas - An Introduction to Grounded Theory
- Phenomenology Online - This site provides public access to articles, monographs, and other materials discussing and exemplifying phenomenological research.
- Popular Education & Participatory Research - An Introduction by John Hurst
- PRAG: The Policy Research Action Group - Founded in 1989, PRAG is a consortium of community-based and community-focused nonprofit organizations and urban universities which currently include Chicago State University, DePaul University, Loyola University of Chicago, National-Louis University, and University of Illinois, Chicago.
- Praxisforschung (Praxis Research)
- Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) - "The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry is an interdisciplinary research and study program involving faculty and students who focus on investigating the persuasive bases of scholarship. Its purpose is to improve academic inquiry, argumentation, and writing in the arts, humanities, sciences, and professions, especially at the intersections between disciplines."
- Q.S.R. - Qualitative Solutions & Research WWW Site - qualitative software
- Qualidata - Qualitative Data Service - Qualidata provides a national service for the acquisition, dissemination and re-use of social sciences qualitative research data.
- Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal
- Qualitative Methods and Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research - by David M. Boje
- Qualitative Methods Internet Resources - Master of Community Health (MCommH), Qualitative Methods Internet Resources
- Qualitative Methods Workbook - by C. George Boeree
- Qualitative Research & Consulting (QUARC) - "QUARC specializes in the methods and techniques of qualitative data analysis (QDA), and especially in the area of computer-aided qualitative data analysis."
- Qualitative Research Bibliography - by Brenda D. Phillips
- Qualitative Research Committee Home Page - St. Louis University
- Qualitative Tools for Multimethod Research - by Division of Social and Community Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA
- Qualrus - The Intelligent Qualitative Analysis Program
- Rapid Assessment Process - to teach qualitative research to graduate students by James Beebe
- Red de Investigaci¢n Cualitativa en Salud - REDICS
- Research for Action - Research for Action (RFA) is a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization engaged in education research and evaluation. Founded in 1992, RFA works with public school districts, educational institutions, and community organizations to improve the educational opportunities and outcomes for those traditionally disadvantaged by race/ethnicity, class, gender, language/cultural difference, and ability/disability.
- Research Questions Teachers Ask - A Report from the National Reading Research Center School Research Consortium
- Resource Panel of Centre for Action Research and Training (CART) - Orissa, India
- Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research - This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social research.
- Rhetorical Structure Theory
- Selection of Quotations Related to Action Research - compiled by Andrew Forgrave
- Sense-Making Studies Site - by Brenda Dervin
- Service Learning - The purpose of this site is to serve as a virtual guide to, and library of, service-learning. Its primary focus is service-learning in higher education.
- Seven Stages in my First Action Research Project - by Michael Prendergast
- Social Work Course Outline Collections: Qualitative Research - Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal (CAM)
- Society for Community Research and Action - The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, is an international organization devoted to advancing theory, research, and social action.
- Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Homepage - is an international social science professional organization of scholars interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research.
- Sociological Research Online's
- Special Issue on Action Research in Information Systems
- Teacher action research helps improve schools - Report from SERVE on Action Research among Science Teachers in Georgia and Florida
- Teacher-As-Researcher - Delaware State Education Association
- Teacher-As-Researcher - ERIC Digest
- Text Analysis Resources - Text Analysis Info is a free information source for information that deals with the analysis of content of human communication, mostly but not limited to text. Several programs support the coding of audio, video, or even chatroom sources.
- The Association for Qualitative Research (Australia)
- The Association for Qualitative Research (Great Britain)
- The Cooperation Council as an Action Research Project in a grade 5 Class - By Marcelle Boulanger
- The Devil's Bargain: Educational Research and the Teacher - Ivor F. Goodson, University of Western Ontario. "The concern of this paper is to explore why it is that so much educational research has tended to be manifestly irrelevant to the teacher. A secondary question is how that irrelevance has been structured and maintained over the years. There are I think three particularly acute problems. Firstly the role of the older foundational disciplines in studying education. Secondly, the role of faculties of education generally. Thirdly, related to the decline of foundational disciplines and the crisis in the faculties of education, the dangers implicit in too hasty an embrace of the panacea of more practical study of education."
- The Grounded Theory Institute - dedicated to the evolving methodology of Dr.Barney G. Glaser
- The Memo Page of Grounded Theory
- The QMethod Page - University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
- The Qualitative Interest Group (QUIG) at the University of Georgia
- The Qualitative Research Ring - Qualitative Research Ring is owned by Bobbi A. Kerlin
- The Scottish Teacher Researcher Support Network (UK)
- The Sin of Omission--Punishable by Death to Internal Validity: An Argument for Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods to Strengthen Internal Validity - by Kathryn A. Bowen, Cornell University
- The Socrates Institute - an international social science professional organization of scholars interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research.
- Transana: A Freely Available Tool Designed to Facilitate the Transcription and Analysis of Audio-Visual Data
- World Phenomenology Institute - The web pages contain up-to-date information regarding Institute programs, projects, and publications such as the international conference series; the Boston Forum; spring and summer symposia; master classes; the yearbook series Analecta Husserliana; the WPI Monograph Series; the journal Phenomenological Inquiry; as well as other matters of philosophical interest related to joint research projects with universities and advanced research institutions around the world.
- World Wide Web Directory - Sociological Research Online
