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“Classroom Research is not traditional research conducted in or on classrooms. It is a specific methodology designed for discipline oriented teachers without training or experience in the methods of educational research. Classroom Research is ongoing and cumulative intellectual inquiry by classroom teachers into the nature of teaching and learning in their own classrooms. Inquiry into a question about how students learn typically leads to new questions and thus to continual investigations through classroom research.” Cross & Steadman “Finding that almost no relationship existed between research on learning and collegiate teaching practices (professors were either oblivious to such research or ignored it), K. Patricia Cross concluded that the research itself was at fault for failure to pay attention to actual classrooms. She argued that teaching and learning reforms could only occur if they were based on concrete classroom situations. Cross made “how to do it” her calling card.” M. Lazerson, U Wagener, and N. Shumanis. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. p. 17 Change 32: 3 2000 Many journals that publish articles about teaching and learning, both within disciplines and across disciplines, invite articles based on classroom research. The term “action research” is sometimes used synonymously with classroom research. The former dates from the work of Kurt Lewin in the 1940’s and may be defined as “Research carried out by practitioners with a view to improving their professional practice and understanding it better.” Borg, Gall & Gall. 1993 Applying Educational Research 3rd ed. Longman,: 390
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