Week 2-Real Life Action Research

Reflection: I agree with Dr.Kirk Lewis, teachers and administrators should be interested in the research and able to use the data for meaningful change to improve student learning and instruction. We should use qualitative and quantitative data together to discover the whole picture. Sharing the results are just as vital as obtaining them because if the data shows improvement, I believe we should encourage them to provide their peers with feedback from any research or strategies they choose to use because of the data. This could be done in a staff development by allowing the teachers to view the data and the teacher provide them with how she disaggregated the data and used the tools to fit her classroom instruction and ultimately how the research benefited and improved student performance. The other teachers will find this more meaningful and ready to use than reading an article or theory.