Classroom research

Action research cycles

Focus on children: observations
Focus on children: Asking about their views
and opinions
Focus on children: Using Interviews
Focus on children: Using questionnaires
 Focus on teachers: recording own classroom
or inviting an observer
• Recording one or a series of lesssons can provide the teacher with an
objective record of exactly what was said, what questions were asked,
or what instrustions were given.
• Recording the patterns for one or several lessons will help the teacher
to become more awareof what is happening in the classroom.
Other research instruments
Approaching the same question in different
ways
Using more than one instrument