Action research is researching by questioning, re-questioning, analyzing, planning, reflecting, and implementing with an end result of change for improvement. One of the important things about action research is that the person completing the research is not an outsider from a university or a research firm. The research is actually completed by the person who is aware of the need for a change at their organization. Action research is important to use to make changes specific to the need of the environment. Leaders, administrators, doctors, or teachers could use action research because it is inquiring, searching for answers, and gaining knowledge about the desired subject along the way.
I could use action research in so many ways to change things. As a teacher I could use action research to determine how I could better reach parents to involve them with activities at school. Action research could also be used to determine how to get the ESL students to use the spoken English language more frequently so that they are able to practice the English language to improve at it. Another way that action research could be used as a teacher is by inquiring how I could make the learning of reading and mathematics more hands-on so that the students are more interested in learning these subjects.