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100 Questions (and Answers) About Action Research identifies and answers the essential questions on the process of systematically approaching your practice from an inquiry-oriented perspective, with a focus on improving that practice. This unique text offers progressive instructors an alternative to the research status quo and serves as a reference for readers to improve their practice as advocates for those they serve. The Question and Answer format makes this an ideal supplementary text for traditional research methods courses, and also a helpful guide for practitioners in education, social work, criminal justice, health, business, and other applied disciplines.
Should I Repeat (Replicate) My Action Research Project?
Should I Repeat (Replicate) My Action Research Project?
With action research, you are generally not interested in replicating because you are primarily interested in understanding what works in your practice, not others’. However, there are conditions when it might be desirable.
Replicating a study means repeating it using the same methods and under the same condition, but with different participants and perhaps a different researcher. If you are interested in generalizing your findings, replication is a good idea. It helps you to more convincingly argue that your results are reliable and your decisions are valid. It helps to control for extraneous variables that you could not account for previously, and if successful, it implies that your method is applicable to different situations, which can further ...
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