Activity 24.2:

True or False?

In the space provided after each statement below, write "T" if the statement is true. Write "F" if the statement is false.

1. Action research is research conducted so that a decision can be reached about an issue of concern at the local school level.
2. Administrators would rarely participate in action research.
3. Those involved in action research generally want to solve some day-to-day immediate problem.
4. One advantage of action research is that it is not limited to generalizability.
5. Action research requires mastery of at least one of the major types of educational research.
6. An assumption underlying action research is that those who work in schools want to engage, at least to some degree, in some form of systematic research.
7. An important aspect of participatory action research is that the question or problem being investigated is one that is of interest to all the parties involved.
8. It is not unusual in much action research to find the use of more than one instrument.
9. The researcher is the key instrument in action research studies.
10. A key characteristic of most action research is that the data collection methods are chosen by the stakeholders.
11. Action research can be done by teachers.
12. Unfortunately, action research cannot help teachers to identify problems and issues systematically.