Action Research

Action Research: An Educational Leader’s Guide to School Improvement, Fourth Edition is intended as a practical guide to conducting school action research. Although it offers neither a cookbook nor a quick-fix approach, this book does outline the process of designing and reporting an action research project. This bookis a comprehensive professional-development manual useful as a classroom text and self-teaching tool.

This volume is also meant for teachers who may want to conduct action research. Teachers are leaders, too, and the strategies and techniques of action research described in this book are no different for teachers than they would be for administrators. As Glanz describes, leadership is not relegated to a position but to a set of beliefs and behaviors of professional educators who seek to improve their work and do their best for their students. These committed professionals view action research as an ideal vehicle to reflect on their work and help solve practical problems.

Rather than merely a philosophical treatise or theoretical analysis, this book provides concrete strategies and techniques for conducting action research in schools.