REPORT WRITING

   WRITING THE REPORT

What can you expect from this section?

   

 THE NEED Action Research, you have learnt is an approach to inquire about a problem of concern in the school setting and try to find alternative solution. An individual or a small group of people can do this research on several aspects of school/class room concerns and cause change. Such endeavors of scientific nature, collaborative efforts are necessary to be recorded for future reference as well as for sharing and rethinking. Kurt Lewin regards Action Research as the development of self-reflective spiral: A spiral of cycles of Planning, acting (implementing plans), observing (systematically collection of data), reflecting and then replanning for further implementation.  Let us recollect the Action Research Spiral The cycle of inquiry should continue and hence it is necessary to document all that happened and the results. Such a report should certainly be disseminated. Such a sharing would bring out more concerns/ themes/ problems to surface for further research. Thus Action Research is reflective.

 REPORTING FORMAT


 * 1) It could be brief running matter/ essay with sub-headings of introduction, needed for the study, the plan of Action-the findings/results-an organized write up and a brief one.
 * 2) The report could be a fairly one under the following heads and focus points :

OR The Research Report could be a brief story like the one given below with not many/ no statistical analysis. But such brief reports are useful for dissemination only. It is better a small procedure/ monograph type of report is written for further use as indicated in the format above. Summary format as given by (Stiffen Kemmis 1988)  
 * 1) A woman teacher interested in gender issues in her classroom asked a trusted colleague to keep a record of to whom she talked to. In half an hour session, she discovered that she talked twice as often to boys as to girls, though the class was roughly half boys and half girls. She changed this pattern, through Action plan only gradually. She had to ask the students themselves change their expectations and therefore to gender questions in the classroom.
 * 2) A Primary School environmental education teacher was dissatisfied with his pupils’ controversial environmental issues. He changed his pattern of teaching from teacher-led-class discussion to a “town meeting” (chaired by himself) of several small groups. Pupils began to question each other statements about environmental issues to a greater extent and asked the teacher not to interfere. The teaching issue for the teacher now became, ‘Can I occupy a management position without influencing the character of the debate’?

 

 

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