Understanding Action Research Methodology As A Strategy To Reflect, Design, Implement, Refine, And Gather Data To Explore Questions Of Professional Interest

Abstract

This paper aims to offer empirical evidence to understand action research methodology as a strategy to reflect, design, implement, refine, and gather data to explore questions of professional interest. To clear up any misinformation, action research is not the only research methodology known to scholars to explore questions of professional interest. This paper also draws on educational leaders and school administrators role in ensuring that teachers utilize action research to solve immediate, and somewhat, pressing issues in the classroom and academic environment. For example, exploring other research methods such as quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods to solve issues in the academic environment may take several months or even years to get departmental and participant consent, research approval, extended data collection strategies, and research designs and apparatus, however, action research method models qualitative or quantitative practice and activities to clarify vision, theories, collect data, and even planning and reflection in the academic or workplace environment. Keywords: Action Research, Analyze Data, Gather Data, Explore Questions, Research Methodology, Strategy, Professional Interest, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8444-8619