Today I visited Edinburgh, which looked beautifully twinkley and all decked out for Christmas. I came to offer two sessions – a lecture on authentic assessment and a seminar on action research. It’s been a great day with lots of interaction on exemplars, technology, reflection, and much more. I go away with lots of ideas and thoughts and inspiration (which isn’t easy by week 9 of term, so thanks team Napier!).
Here are the resources, as promised. Please use and re purpose as helpful.
Authentic Assessment Arise Lecture
Action Research Planning Worksheet
Additionally please see below for direct links to the HEA/AdvanceHE Guides to action research.
- Arnold, L. & Norton, L. 2018a. Action Research: Practice guide. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/action-research-practice-guide HEA: York.
- Arnold, L. & Norton, L. 2018b. Action Research: Sector case studies. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/hea-action-research-sector-case-studies HEA: York
Finally – I was asked about publishing action research. I’d recommend having look at the journal called Educational Action Research for inspiration and also explore CARN (not exclusively HE or even education, but a very broad church of inspirational research which includes HE).
Lydia Arnold 