Appendix C: The reflective practitioner
reliability validityOn the Internet
<http:// http://www.aera.net > This is the official website of the American Educational Research Association (or
AERA), a major "umbrella" professional association supporting educational research of all kinds. The home page
has links to over two dozen special interest groups (called “SIGs”), each specializing in some form of educational
research or practice. There is, among others, a special interest group called "teacher as researcher", intended
primarily for educators involved in action research.
http://www.nea.org This is the website of the National Education Association (or NEA), another major
professional association of educators. The difference between this association and the American Educational
Research Association, however, is that the NEA focuses less on presenting research as such, and more on issues of
teaching practice. Like the AERA website, it includes articles on numerous topics that can be downloaded or read
online.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI This is the website of the United States Office of Educational Research
and Improvement. It summarizes current research initiatives about education that are sponsored by the United
States Federal government, and includes links for finding information about the individual initiatives which it lists.
dedicated to action research. The first belongs to the Society for Community Research and Action, a division of the
American Psychological Association. It promotes and publishes action research in many professions, one of which
is education. The second website belongs to the Action Research Special Interest Group of the American
Educational Research Association; as you might suspect from its name, it focuses exclusively on action research by
educators.
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