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# 12 action research steps
![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Oct 16, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Nov 05, 2022</small> 🏷️[[Action Research]]
**Integrating action and research steps**
Action steps with an action focus | Action steps with a research focus also
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Clarify aims | What is the concern?
Explain rationale and purposes | Why is it a concern? Reasons and purposes for the research?
Identify objectives and targets | What do we want to achieve in the short, medium and long term?
Plan for activities and milestones | What can I/we do about it? What specific targets should we identify for different stages of the project?
Consider resources | What and whom do we need to support us?
Draw up timelines | When will we aim to carry out our actions? How do we organize our time?
Articulate criteria | What do we expect to happen? What are our minimum (and maximum) expectations? What values do we wish to realize in practice?
Articulate standards of judgment | How will we check that our actions are having the desired effect? How will we judge these effects?
Explain procedures for monitoring practices, data gathering, analysis and interpretation | How will we monitor and document our practices? What kind of data do we need? How will we gather these? How will we analyze and interpret these?
Begin formal evaluation | how do we check that we are having the desired effect?
Imagine modification of actions | Have our actions revealed new areas for examination? Have new questions emerged through the process?
Identify future priorities and action plans | What have we learned? What is the significance of our learning? What do we need to do now?
## Sources
[[Action Research - McNiff 2017]]