Research & Teaching: Using Action Research to Bring the Large Class Down to Size—Employing Focused Classroom Investigations to Improve Individual Teaching Practices | NSTA

Research & Teaching: Using Action Research to Bring the Large Class Down to Size—Employing Focused Classroom Investigations to Improve Individual Teaching Practices

Journal of College Science Teaching—November 1998

Action research is an approach to teaching that leads to the improvement of instructional practices. This article summarizes several action research studies conducted at Montana State University in an introductory astronomy course.

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