Classroom research

Action research cycles

Focus on children: observations
Focus on children: Asking about their views
and opinions
Focus on children: Using Interviews
• Questionnaires are better suited for quick factual surveys.

• The role of teacher for this instrument:

- Check the language used in questionnaires.
- If there are open questions which invite learners to
give their own examples and comments, the actual
process of writing may be time-consuming and
tiring for children who may be inexperinced
writers.
• Recording one or a series of lesssons can provide the teacher with an
objective record of exactly what was said, what questions were asked,
or what instrustions were given.
• Recording the patterns for one or several lessons will help the teacher
to become more awareof what is happening in the classroom.
• There are other methods that teachers can use and combine.
For example:
- Case studies :
by focusing on a group or an individual in more details
and
focus on teaching and learning materials.
• The teacher could video or audio recorded her lesson to get linguistic
evidence of how she uses feedback. (by video)
• The teacher would be to engane in systematic refelection in diary
writing and visiting other colleagues’ lessons. (by diary)
• The teacher would be to ask children in her classes about how
they felt about feedback and praise. (by data)
• Triangulating data
E.g : a colleague might observe something in a teacher’s
classroom; then the teacher may decide to record himself and finally
ask the children’s opinions on the same issue.
• By asking parents
E.g: When teachers talk to parents they may discover that these
children display their knowledge spontaneously in their home
enviroment.