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Area of Focus
Every teacher and administrator who undertakes an action research project starts at the same place: making explicit a question or problem to investigate, or defining an area of focus
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Review of Related Literature
At this point in the action research process you should make an initial foray into the professional literature in order to better understand the problem on which you are focusing.
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Review of Related Literature
At the end of the review of related literature process you should have a better understanding of your own problem and how it has been tackled by other researchers.
You should be able to talk about “promising practices.”
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Searching Online Resources
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)Education IndexPsycINFODissertation AbstractsReaders’ Guide to Periodical LiteratureACTFL (www.actfl.org)Foreign Language Annals
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ERIC Searching
The basic ERIC search prompts you to search using keywords, author only, title only, or ERIC document number (ED)
The advanced ERIC search offers the same features as the basic search with the addition of searching using ISBN number, journal name, source institution, sponsoring agency, publication types, ERIC Thesaurus descriptor, publication date, and full-text availability.
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Education Index
The Education Index is an electronic index of educational periodicals with abstracts dating back to 1983.
In addition to article abstracts, the database includes citations for yearbooks and monograph series, videotapes, motion picture and computer program reviews, and law cases.
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Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from all subject areas for doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed at more than 1,000 accredited colleges and universities worldwide.
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Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature is an index similar in format to the Education Index.
Instead of professional publications, however, it indexes articles in nearly 200 widely read magazines. These articles will generally be nontechnical, opinion-type references.
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CSTEEP: The Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation,
and Educational Policyhttp://www.csteep.bc.edu
The web site for this educational research organization contains information on testing, evaluation, and public policy studies on school assessment practices and international comparative research.
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Developing Educational Standards
http://www.edstandards.org/Standards.html
This site contains a wealth of up-to-date information regarding educational standards and curriculum frameworks from national, state, local, and other sources.
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Evaluating Your Sources
An initial appraisal of a source includes:Date of publication
Location of source. For example, did you find your source in a refereed or nonrefereed journal?
A refereed journal is one where articles are reviewed by a panel of experts in the field and are seen as more scholarly and trustworthy than articles from nonrefereed or popular journals.
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Analyzing, Organizing, and Reporting the Literature
Make an outlineAnalyze each reference in terms of your outlineAnalyze the references under each subheading for similarities and differencesGive a meaningful overview of past researchDiscuss the references least related to your problem first and those most related to your problem just prior to the statement of the hypothesisConclude the review with a brief summary of the literature an its implications
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Literature Matrix
A helpful way to keep track of the literature you are reading and to provide a visual overview of similarities and differences is to use a literature matrix.
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