The text that I am reading identified nine areas from which you can find your action research question: "staff development, curriculum development, individual teacher(s), individual student(s), school culture/community, leadership, management, school performance, and social justice" (Dana, 2009). With each of these categories there are many things that could be researched and that are interesting ranging from: what could be done to increase teacher leaders to how to improve one group of students lack of achievement to what is the best way to transition the students from one grade level to the next.
The significance of action research is to look into the future to determine who will be better off as a result of this action research and how the will be impacted. After choosing an action research topic there may be branches of other questions that are identified as a result of the the initial inquiry, but it is important to stay focused on the initial topic and maybe add the new research questions to a future to do list.
The more that I read this week and the more videos that I watched from the Lamar scholars about action research the more I learned that it is important to inquire about something that is of interest to the inquirer. When research is completed about something that you are interested in the research is more important to the researcher.
Dana, N. F. (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge: The principal as action researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.