Administrative inquiry or Action research is used to improve or analyzing behaviors or situations. It gives an opportunity to reflect on the actions taken and seeing the results, giving you the opportunity to improve. The best part is that in involves the person or persons affected, so they can see the benefits and improve if something is not working as planned, because you are the one in the situation of improvement.
Action research in educational settings involves more than one personnel. An example of action research in educational settings is when the superintendent uses action research for improvement of their principals instead of professional development. Having an action research banquet when the year ends makes me believe it was a complete success, and everyone shares their action research, to keep the professional learning community going.
Team learning inquiry with the leadership team is another way of action research used by principals. This assures the principal the leadership team is learning. Which then makes them a professional learning community.
Principals are instituating action research for their teachers as a powerful form of professional development, not only that principals are also using it with other principals and doing action research on their administrations of their schools.
The benefits of conducting action research is that you and co-workers in your field are completely involve in finding a solution or an improvement in a certain situation affecting all. What better way to improve education than by having action research from within your own personnel.
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