Action Research Resources

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Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 610] Re: Action research resources
From: Kaye Beall kabeall at comcast.net
Date: Mon Oct 9 18:21:20 EDT 2006

I've been enjoying the action research discussion and am delighted to know more about the projects in the Washington, DC area. The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) was mentioned as a resource, and I wanted to provide an update on our work and Web links.

NCSALL partnered with adult education in Minnesota to launch practitioner research focused on reading several years ago. Minnesota has continued the projects and are starting another year in 2006-07. You are invited to investigate the training guide they are using, as well as the teacher's reports at http://www.ncsall.net/?id=967.

You'll notice that this link also mentions the Northwest Practitioner Knowledge Institute that Bonnita Solberg mentioned in her posts. It was exciting for both the practitioners and the researchers to be a part of the institute. The researchers were fascinated with the teachers' reports and how the practitioners were coming to the same findings as the researchers around pair work.

Thanks again for the discussion,

Kaye

Kaye Beall
Outreach Coordinator/NCSALL Dissemination Project
World Education
4401 S. Madison St.
Muncie, IN 47302
Tel: 765-717-3942
Fax: 208-694-8262
kaye_beall at worlded.org

http://www.ncsall.net