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    This document provides guidance on planning for action research, including identifying a topic, limiting the scope, reviewing related literature, and conducting a literature review. It discusses preliminary considerations for topics such as personal interest, importance, time, costs and ethics. It also explains how to focus a topic by considering who, what, when, where and how. Additionally, it outlines gathering information, reviewing primary and secondary sources from databases like ERIC, and using Boolean operators to search. The purpose of the literature review is to inform the research planning and it should summarize previous findings in a cohesive essay with a concluding paragraph.

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    Chapter 3: Planning for Action

    Research
    Limiting a Topic
    Digging into the Literature
    Identifying a Topic for Research:
    Preliminary Considerations:

    Personal Interest
    Importance
    Time
    Difficulty
    Monetary Costs
    Research Ethics
    Identifying a Topic for Research:
    Limiting a Topic:
    Focus on:
    Who?
    What?
    When?
    Where?
    How?
    Planning for Action Research:
    Gathering Preliminary Information

    Reconnaissance
    Self-Reflection
    Description
    Explanation
    Planning for Action Research:
    Reviewing Related Literature:
    Examination of journal articles, books, and other
    sources related to an action research project
    Primary Sources:
    Journal Articles
    Monographs
    Papers Presented at
    Conferences
    Secondary Sources:
    Meta-analyses and Literature Reviews
    Planning for Action Research:
    The purpose of the Literature Review is to guide and
    inform research planning.
    Narrowing the Topic:
    Broad Topic Research Question? Narrowed Version
    What teachers’ lives are Leisure activities of
    like outside of school. elementary teachers and
    the amount of time they
    spend on them.
    Factors that affect learning Hispanic students’
    among culturally diverse perceptions of factors that
    students make academic success
    more difficult.
    Importance of reading Effect of first grade reading
    practice in developing practice when fifth grade
    reading skills ‘buddies’ are used
    regularly.
    Virtual dissection versus Tenth-grade biology
    real dissection student’s perceptions of
    virtual and real dissections
    Reviewing Related Literature: Sources
    • Primary Sources: Searching Specialized Indices or
    databases.
    • ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center):
    est. 1966 by US Dept. of Education. Largest database
    for locating research in education.
    SEARCHING DATA BASES:
    Boolean Operators:
    keywords that enable retrieval of terms and
    specific combinations ('and', 'or', 'if')
    Continue to 'Narrow'
    Abstract: brief summary of document
    contents.
    Literature Review:
    Plan to 'summarize' your findings
    Document Sources
    What are the findings of previous research?
    Cohesive essay
    Concluding paragraph
    References:

    1) Mertler, C. A. (2014). Action research: Improving


    schools and empowering educators (4th ed.). Los
    Angeles, CA: Sage Publishers.

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