Action Research Projects and Action Research Reports
Action Research as Professional Development by Shirley
Grundy
"In the paper I argue that action research is a powerful
form of professional development. Its power comes from the fact
that the focus of inquiry and interest in action research is the
participants' own practice. Moreover, action research does not
send people off to engage in solitary action and reflection."
Introduction of web-page to Stage 4 History by Jennifer Petschler
"This paper outlines the action research as it was implemented,
the structures which were aimed at allowing for data collection,
evaluation of data and reflection. As Cohen and Manion point out,
the "emphasis is not so much on obtaining generalisable scientific
knowledge as on precise knowledge for a particular situation or
purpose"
Nuclear Testing in the Pacific by Cheryl Chennery
This is Cheryl's excellent site Nuclear Testing in the Pacific
for her preliminary Modern History class.
>> Nuclear
Testing in the Pacific
>> Action Research
Report
Belinda Frome's Project : Holy Cross College
"Raising the literacy levels of boys is a continual challenge
in the lives of teachers, especially at Holy Cross. Combining
this with the challenge of creating interest and enthusiasm in
history is a blue print for an uphill struggle for any teacher...
I wanted to seize this opportunity and allow the Internet and
it’s advantages drive and motivate my students into learning
about history."
>> What
is History?
>> Action Research
Report
Kontanze Kwiet's Project : Girraween Gigh School
>> Ideology
WebQuest
Maree Cullens's Project : De La Salle College, Cronulla
>> World
War 1 Guide
>> Action Research
Report
Patricia Hosking's Project : Aboriginal Webquest
>> http://www.ralen.com.au/Pat/
Joy Unger's Project : Winmalee High School
"Under the auspices of the NSW History Project, I have
undertaken an Action Research Assignment. This exercise seeks
to evaluate the benefits of using a constructed web site as an
educational tool in individualising the learning undertaken by
students. The activity in which the students will be involved
will be an ongoing Research of the History of the school and the
place it occupies in regard to the local community and its people."
>> http://www.winmalee-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/
>> Action
Research Report (offsite)
Christina Boyd's Project : Katoomba Public School
Developing a history program for stages 1-3 using local resources.
"Katoomba Public School is a school of approximately 300
children situated in the upper Blue Mountains, an area rich in
local history. However, I suspected that the teaching of the history
strands of the syllabus was patchy at best due to the crowded
nature of the current curricula, some crucial staff changes and
a current reworking of the scope and sequence in HSIE within the
school."
>> Action Research
Report
Sheryl Bremner's Project : Improving Oral Assesment
Sheryl Bremner's action research report on improving oral
assessment with her stage 5 History class.
>> Action Research
Report
Anthony Llwellen-Jones' Project : The World at the Beginning
of the 20th Century
This project includes a series of slide shows on the world
at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as accompanying
worksheets and work samples. All of these documents are provided
in PDF format. To view PDF files you must have a copy of Acrobat
Reader, available free from www.adobe.com.
Slide Shows
>> The
World at the Beginning of the 20th Century
>> Austria
>> Britan
>> Germany
>> Russia
>> Serbia
>> Turkey
>> USA
Worksheets
>> Immediate
causes of WWI
>> Long-term
causes of WWI
>> Procedures
in this project
>> Presentation
task
Jacinta Squire's Project : Literacy - Contact and Colonisation
"The outline of this research was to develop step by
step strategies that could teach students the key elements of
a particular text type. So that by the time they were asked to
write a recount they knew implicitly the steps to take to accomplish
this task."
>> Action Research
Report
Lourdes Maria Angulo's Project : Travel's Through Ancient Egypt
>> WebQuest
A Local History Study of Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred
Heart
Students engage in inquiry-based research as they become historians
who explain significant people, places, groups, actions and events
in developing the identity and heritage of Kincoppal-Rose Bay
School. Their role as historians is to contribute to a Year 6
book based on investigations and research carried out in the course
of this unit of work.
>> Action Research
Report
John Tognolini's Project: Red Poppies A Webquest
on Australians Soldiers in World War One
>> WebQuest
Myall Creek Massacre by David Abbey
Clairgate Public School
>> Action Research Project
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