Author: Local User

Action research question here — (‘If I do x will y happen?’ or ‘How does x impact on y?’)
Author’s Name
School/Full address

Introduction/Context:
A short paragraph about your school, including a description of the pupils on which you chose to focus and why, [number, gender, year group, other relevant characteristics].

The ‘problem’ or issue you have addressed:
Briefly describe what the issue your research tried to find out about and its potential contribution to our understanding of expansive education

Review of current practice and literature
The ‘problem’ might have led you to survey others’ work and to read more widely. Include a brief section here if you choose to review other people’s work to see what could be learned from their findings. This may help you to produce your own research question.

Research methods:

Findings before intervention
What you observed in your target group of pupils that alerted you to the ‘issue’ you identified

Findings after intervention
Answer your initial research question here. A summary of what you found out, your conclusions, including simple tables or charts, where relevant, analysing the data you collected.

Intervention:
A description of what you did differently [your ‘action’] and the methods you used to collect data [your ‘research’]. Different research designs will entail different ways of collecting data and Action Research approaches tend to favour ‘mixed methods’ of data collection, for example:
• an initial and/or end-of intervention survey
• participant observation
• interviews
• field notes.

Implications for future Practice/ Lessons Learned
A few pointers as to what your own and other schools might learn from your findings.
Also a chance for you to share your own reflections as a practitioner. What did you learn? What did you find challenging? What has it left you thinking, wondering? What might you do next?