Action Research for Educational, Professional, and Personal Change
(previously Evaluation of Educational Change)
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Syllabi and important materials
Spring 09 syllabus
Notes on Teaching/Learning interactions for Spr 09
Spring 08 syllabus
Spring 07 syllabus
Spring 06 syllabus
Refreshments Sign Up Sheet
Action Research Units
Overview of Action research cycles and epicycles
General Framework for Exchanges and Inquiry
Specific Points for 693 Exchanges and Inquiry
Initial Action Research tasks
Brain Food Schedule resulting from Action Research Activity during first 06 class meeting
Unit for 2006 class on "Helping each other prepare for the post-CCT future in which each of you attempt to create supportive community for your professional and personal development"
Notes on research and planning from individual projects
Other Activities
Links to students' course-related wikipages
Small group guidelines
Clippings (Annotated links or references to items in newspapers and other media)
2006 Closing activity on "Personal and Professional Development towards competency as an agent of the educational (or related) changes you seek"
2007 Closing activity on same topic
Summaries of issues and questions from readings
insert new summaries by alphabetical order of first author
Backer, et al. (2002) Case study and analysis: The Center for the Improvement of Teaching.
Carr and Kemmis (1986) Becoming Critical
CEDAC (1995) Our Economy: Our Future
Greenwald, Learning from Problems
Greenwood and Levin (1998)"Introduction To Action Research"
Hitchcock and Hughes (1995) Research and the Teacher: A Qualitative Introduction to School-based Research
Hunt (1985) "The dilemma in the classroom
Madison Metropolitan School District (2001) Classroom action research.
McLeod, et al. (2001) "Changing how we work."
Metcalf (2002) "Reading between the lines."
Rokovich
Senge et al. (2000) "Fostering communities that learn," in Schools That Learn. New York: Currency,459-465.
Taylor (2005) "Epilogue," in Unruly Complexity
Woodhead (1988) "When psychology informs public policy"
