JUNE 9, 2023

Preparation of
Classroom-based
Action Research

VENGIE B. DOYDOY
Monkayo College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology
[email protected]
+639169964479
ACTION RESEARCH
RESEARCH is not just the domain of an expert outside the
classroom; it is also the domain of the TEACHING
PROFESSION.

GOOD TEACHERS are GOOD RESEARCHERS.

(UzZaman, 2004)
 Objectives

• Define action research;

• Discuss its format and contents;
• Provide samples
• Workshops
 TRY to imagine a classroom without
intervention, strategy, INNOVATION or
management.

TRY to imagine a classroom with

intervention, strategy, INNOVATION or
management.
 Review Quiz
I.True or False. Write T if the statement is true and F if it states otherwise.

____1. Action research needs findings and claims from reliable sources.
____2.You can present results through graphs.
____3.Two questions are allowed in action researches.
____4.Sample size is getting the number of the whole population and make them all your respondents.
____5.Quarterly examination questionnaire can be a tool to gather data.

II. Arrange the details below. Form them into the APA format style of referencing.

6. https://datasource.com/academicperformance
Ronnel Go “Academic Performance of Students” Date published July 11, 2016

7. Liam Ang, Ruby Tan, Lucy Lee January 22, 2018

“reading remediation of pupils” https://academy.com/readingremediation
Definition of Term:
ACTION RESEARCH is an approach to What is an
educational research that is commonly used
by educational practitioners and Action
professionals (teachers) to examine, and
ultimately improve, their pedagogy and
practice.
Research?

ACTION RESEARCH is RESEARC I

TEACHING
Action Research Process
Action research is an unending
research. It always follows the following
steps:
• Identify and define the focus of your
investigation (problem),
• Create an intervention, strategy or
innovation
• Employ the created intervention to
target respondents,
• Evaluate and analyze the data
gathered,
• Make a reflection on the results and
findings.
• Do it again.
 PARTS OF ACTION RESEARCH

Context and Research

Innovation, Methods Results, Action Plan
Rationale Question
Intervention, Discussion and
and Strategy Reflection
 Research Methods

Participants Data Gathering

Data Analysis Plan
and Other Methods
Source
Crafting Titles
 A good research title should:

Doable
Tell the
Tell the tone of writing
content of the
paper

interesting Has
Keywords
 PUT ( /) ON THE BLANK IF THE TITLE IS AN
ACTION RESEARCH AND (X) IF NOT.
______Effects of Multimedia Assisted Instruction on Academic Performance in English: A Phenomenological Study

______Out-of-field Teaching Assignment of Teachers and Academic Performance of Students

______Using ICT Generated Word Game in Increasing Vocabulary Skills of Seventh Graders

______Integrating Video Clips in Science Class In Promoting Climate Change Awareness

______Perception of Reading Teachers and Pupils Reading Ability

______Word-Recognition Practice: Its Impact on the Development of Pupils' Listening Comprehension

______Platooning: A Strategy on Increasing Pupils' Performance in English- Science-Mathematics- (EnSciMa)

Learning Areas.
______Kaguro Ko, Kaagapay Ker. Addressing the Mentoring Barriers As Experienced by Master Teachers

______ Tokhang Pabasa Program: Combating Against Reading Difficulty of Children in Remote Community

______ Exulting the Hopes of Students from Broken Abodes

 I. CONTEXT AND RATIONALE

02 04 06

Describe the key terms Gap Fill Significance

(research phenomenon)

The whole picture

of the study Legal/theoretical Urgency of the Study
bases ( reason)

01 03 05
I. Context and Rationale

Academic cheating is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a

formal academic exercise (Anderson, 2014). It is academic cheating when a
student copies answers from another student’s test paper, homework using
crib notes, cell phones, or some other method to secretly look at
information to answer test questions, uses a cell phone or other device to
take pictures of tests and exams and sends them to another students, or text
messages questions and answer to another students, and pays another
students to do his homework. According to survey of 23,000 high school
students in public and private schools, 51% high school students admitted
they had cheated on a test during the past year.

What is the problem all about?

 In another 2015 research survey, 75 percent of students admitted to cheating in school;
90 percent admitted to copying another student’s test paper or homework; 35 percent of
them used cell phones to cheat whole 52 percent used the internet to cheat. All this data
suggest that cheating too often is the rule, not the exception (Anderson, 2014). Mapawa
National High School is not spared from this situation. In the first quarter (SY 2016-2017),
15 cases of academic cheating was recorded by the Guidance Office involving Grade VII
students.
The issue of academic cheating is fundamentally on of character. Character is most
readily molded during times of transition and adolescence. High school and college are,
therefore particularly important places for students to learn that when they cheat in their
academic work, they are not only cheating fellow students and their institutions; they are
cheating themselves. Cheating at school happens often and at practically all grade levels.
It is growing problem that pressures both parents and teachers and that schools need to
address.
 In another 2015 research survey, 75 percent of students admitted to cheating in school;
90 percent admitted to copying another student’s test paper or homework; 35 percent of
them used cell phones to cheat whole 52 percent used the internet to cheat. All this data
suggest that cheating too often is the rule, not the exception (Anderson, 2014). Mapawa
National High School is not spared from this situation. In the first quarter (SY 2016-
2017), 15 cases of academic cheating was recorded by the Guidance Office involving
Grade VII students.
The issue of academic cheating is fundamentally on of character. Character is most
readily molded during times of transition and adolescence. High school and college are,
therefore particularly important places for students to learn that when they cheat in their
academic work, they are not only cheating fellow students and their institutions; they are
cheating themselves. Cheating at school happens often and at practically all grade levels.
It is growing problem that pressures both parents and teachers and that schools need to
address.

What is the condition in the locale that needs to be solved?

 Department of Education (DepEd) Memorandum DM-OUCI-2021-395 reiterates its stand
on maintaining academic honesty while upholding every learner’s integrity. Thus,
teachers, parents, and school heads are highly encouraged to seek out opportunities to
teach academic integrity among learners and discourage them from feeding on laziness
and instant gratification as this will generate devastating effects on their values. Thus,
Grade VII students’ involvement in specific dishonest behaviors must be resolved soon
to reduce or eradicate cheating in high-stakes testing situations.

What is the ideal situation?

II. ACTION RESEARCH
QUESTIONS

• Establish AR questions from

the given problem to hit the
purpose of the research
A good classroom action research question should:

1. meaningful, compelling, and important to you as a researcher.

2. manageable
3. Benefits your students by informing your teaching and the
curriculum,
4. provides new insights about students and their learning,
5. leads to practice improvement.
6. lead to taking an action
Example Questions:

• What happens to the quality of student writing when peer editing

in English classes is implemented?

• How does the use of computers affect the student writing process in
the class?

• What happens to student understanding of specific geometrical

concepts when exploratory exercises is incorporated into the
teaching of geometry in the classroom?

• What happens to students’ academic performance in the classrooms

when the school observes the heterogeneous system during
cooperative learning activities?
ACTION RESEARCH QUESTIONS are usually focused on what is
the impact or effect of the given intervention, strategy or
innovation to the problem being addressed.

What is the test scores of students before and after the peer tutorial
activity?

How effective is peer tutorial activity in answering mathematics

problem?
 II. Action Research Questions

This action research will examine the frequency of engagement in

academic cheating and the effectiveness of MIXED program among Grade VII
students of San Jose National High School for School Year 2017-2018.

Specifically, this study will seek answers to the following questions:

1. What is the frequency of engagement in academic cheating among Grade

VII students?
2. How effective is the MIXED program in addressing academic cheating
among grade VII students?
Identify the Action Research Questions. Put YES if the given
question is an AR question, and NO if not on the blank.

________How does historical fiction help students think about people's agency in the
past?
________ What are the factors that affect students’ performance in Mathematics?
________ How does acting out sentences improve student punctuation?
________ What are the lived experiences of child laborers?
________ How effective is pre-evaluation of teachers daily lesson plan to teachers COT
rating?
III. PROPOSED INTERVENTION,
INNOVATION, STRATEGY

Describe and illustrate the intervention,

innovation or strategy
When? (time duration)
Where? (locale of the study)
Who? (respondents or participants)
How? (employment of your strategy)
 III. PROPOSED INTERVENTION,
INNOVATION, STRATEGY

MIXED program is embedded with values, principles and practices aligned to

academic integrity. Thus, it aims to respond to solve academic cheating among
students.
This is done through mixing students in a classroom in terms of grade levels
during quarterly examinations. Additionally, students are assigned to take their
examinations in the designated classroom.
Innovative Project Proposal
suggested parts:
1. Rationale - general context of your project
2. Objectives of the Project- which includes aims of your project
3. Project Description- characteristics of the proposed project
4. Project Conceptual Paradigm- methodologies/workplan to realize the
proposed project
5. Participants
6. Project cost
7. Source/s of Fund
8. Monitoring and Evaluation
Instructional Materials:
Instructional Materials Contents:

Title
Rationale
Objectives
Presentation of the Lesson
-motivation, discussion, application, evaluation
(rubric for performance), assignment(reflection)
References
IV. ACTION RESEARCH METHODS
PARTICIPANTS/ OTHER
SOURCES 01
number, characteristics, DATA GATHERING
sampling METHODS 02
instruments, type of data
collected, how, when

DATA ANALYSIS PLAN

- statistical tool/thematic
03
analysis
- type of research
 IV. Action Research Methods
PARTICIPANTS

RANDOM SAMPLING
❖ make strong statistical inferences about the whole group
❖ If you need a sample size of 3, then you would take the samples with the random numbers
from 1 to 3.

SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING
❖ Every member of the population is listed with a number. Individuals are chosen at regular
intervals.
❖ if you were conducting surveys at a mall, you might survey every 30th person that walks in, for
example.

STRATIFIED SAMPLING
❖ Involves dividing the population into subpopulations that may differ in important ways.
❖ You divide the population into subgroups (called strata) based on the relevant characteristic (e.g.
gender, age range, income bracket, job role).
 IV. Action Research Methods
PARTICIPANTS

CLUSTER RANDOM SAMPLING

❖ Cluster sampling starts by dividing a population into groups, or clusters. What makes this
different that stratified sampling is that each cluster must be representative of the population.
Then, you randomly selecting entire clusters to sample.

SNOWBALL SAMPLING
❖ Referral technique or sampling which researchers’ participants are asked to assist reseaerchers in
identifying other potential subject.
IV. Action Research Methods

B. DATA GATHERING

✔ creating instruments or tools to gather data like questionnaire, project

proposal and implementation, instructional materials or any
innovations.
✔ designing agreement or consent forms to legally gather data from the
target respondents or participants
✔ employing the created innovation to the target respondents
IV. Action Research Methods

C. DATA ANALYSIS PLAN

⮚ This is the process of systematically applying statistical and/or logical

techniques to describe and illustrate, condense and recap, and evaluate
data.
⮚ As a researcher, you have to explain the technical steps involved in
analyzing and interpreting data.
IV. Action Research Methods

a. Participants
The target participants of the study will be 500 randomly selected Grade VII
students of San Jose National High School who are officially enrolled during the school
year 2017-2018. The Slovin’s formula will be used to determine the sample size.
b. Data Gathering
First, assent forms are given to students who are the participants of the study,
and consent form for the parents.
Second, the developed monitoring sheets on the MIXED program will be
approved by the academic heads and school principal.
c. Data Analysis Plan
This study will use quantitative research design. Frequency will be used to
determine the number of Grade VII students who are engaged in academic cheating;
and Independent T-Test to identify the effectiveness of MIXED program.
VII. PLANS FOR DISSEMINATION AND
UTILIZATION

posters
Distribution of copies

symposia
Conferences/ meetings

leaflets
VII. REFERENCES
It should always follow APA
Format
THANK YOU