Action research

Identifying a focus for action research

Supervisor : Dr. Hannah Pillay

Student : Vu Viet Trung

Task : Refining my concern

Aim of the activity : To refine the focus identified as a possible
action research area

My concern
What should I do to help my students to concentrate and save time when doing group work ?

When doing group work, my students seem to waste a lot
of time. I want to increase the amount of task-oriented for
students engaging in group work.
From the issue I have identified, I want to know :


Which students are not interested in group work and often waste time ?
In which activities they waste time to involve with ?
How will the group work be effected when students waste time ?
Will students pay more attention to their work if I give them clear instructions and more task-oriented ?
Which activities I have to do to concentrate students to their work ?
What possibilities do I have for changing the situation?
To help me make some judgments about my concern, I think I can collect some kinds of evidence from observations, existing data, interviews, written surveys, tape and video recorders, feedback…

How ?
Attending direct and selective observations, being observed then give feedback.
Exploring existing data from students’ written work ( essay, exercises …), from teachers’ writings, notes, diaries … and from other documents like class registers, letters from parents.
Collecting written surveys from samples, from myself, my colleagues.
Interviewing colleagues, students.
Tape recording students’ work and what I and my colleagues applied then compare.