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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.
I Wrote My Question and Chose My Design. What Kind of Data Do I Need?
I Wrote My Question and Chose My Design. What Kind of Data Do I Need?
Action researchers want their decisions to be based on as much high-quality data as possible. The data are used to justify sometimes very important decisions that affect the researcher, the participants, and interested stakeholders. For these reasons, you need to, to the best of your ability, ensure the reliability and validity of your data.
Data that are reliable mean that they are consistently collected and of high quality. This gives you confidence in the accuracy of the data. Your decisions are valid when you make inferences based on reliable data. What you report, after your project, needs to align with what you learned. The best way to ensure both is ...
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