Improving Computing Classroom Practice Through Action Research

Apply action research to your teaching and become a more reflective practitioner

Through this course, you will become familiar with the process of classroom action research, and plan your own classroom-based investigation.

You will learn about how this cyclic process can help develop lasting improvement in your practice. Together with other participants, you will reflect on challenges that you face in your learning environment, and use computing education research to explore possible solutions.

As well as planning a research project, you’ll also look at how you can analyse the data that you collect. You’ll then consider how the results of your research should inform your future practice.

This course is for any educator interested in developing their computing practice and pedagogy. Regardless of which subjects you teach, computing tools as well as concepts and content will have a bearing on your teaching in a modern classroom.

Whatever your teaching background this course will give you the skills to run your own action research project.

• Understanding Action Research
• Why action research?
• Understanding research methods
• Choosing a focus for research
• Preparing for research
• Developing your research question
• Action and measurement planning
• Planning activity and outcomes
• Complete your research plan
• Analysis and conclusions
• Analysing your research data
• Visualising data and drawing conclusions
• Continuing your action research journey