Description of action research

This week I learned that action research means just what is says. In simple terms it is research that causes some action; I mean that the research being conducted will end up with results that should answer how to make the issue better or even fix the problem. Also that action research needs to be done at a specific campus or work place by its campus leader or a person at that location.  The purpose for that is who else knows their work place better than the leader of the campus.  One cannot assume that the other campus down that street is having the same issues that his/her campus is having.  So one needs to find and work with the issues that surround them.

 I also learned that there are different kinds of research and not to confuse it with the traditional education research.  The point here is that we want to find a problem and also find the solution on how to fix the problem. 
There is so many ways that a person can use this action research at their campus but the main way is to produce improvements at the school. One can find an issue and go from there- collecting data and to gaining insights into their problems.

I can see educational leaders using blogs to network and finding answers to issues that they might just come upon.  Maybe even to prevent an issue that a different school is having, so its not just for sloving problem as well for preventing it from having at ones school.