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distinct, purposes:
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• Building the reflective practitioner

• Making progress on schoolwide priorities

• Building professional cultures

(found at
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/100047/chapters/What-Is-
Action-Research%C2%A2.aspx)

2.4.3 Building the reflective practitioner

When individual teachers make a personal commitment to
systematically collect data on their work, they are embarking on a
process that will foster continuous growth and development. When
each lesson is looked on as an empirical investigation into factors
affecting teaching and learning and when reflections on the findings
from each day's work inform the next day's instruction, teachers can't
help but develop greater mastery of the art and science of teaching.
In this way, the individual teachers conducting action research are
making continuous progress in developing their strengths as
reflective practitioners.

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2.4.4 The action research process

Educational action research can be engaged in by a single teacher,
by a group of colleagues who share an interest in a common
problem, or by the entire faculty of a school. Whatever the scenario,
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These seven steps, which become an endless cycle for the inquiring

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