Teachers’ perceptions on action research for their professional development

Abstract

The present research work entitled Teachers’ Perceptions on Action Research for Their Professional Development aims to find out the English language teachers’ perceptions onaction research for their professional development. The researcher selected 30 secondary level teachers from Sunsari district, 15 from community school, and 15 from institutionalschools by usingrandom sampling procedure. The data were collected by using close endedquestions in a set of questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted descriptively with the help of simple statistical tools. The major findings of this study were that the teachers have positive attitudes towards therole of action research for their professional development. Teachers stated that action research is one of the prominent toolsforteachers’professionaldevelopment. This research work is divided into five different chapters. The first deals with introduction ofthe study. It consists of the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives ofthe study, research questions, limitation of the study and operational definition of key terms. Likewise, the second chapterdeals with the review of theoretical as well as empirical literature. It consists ofthe implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The thirdchapter deals with the methods and procedure for the study. It consists ofresearch design, population and sample, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure.Similarly, the fourth chapter focuses on the results and discussion.The fifth chapter consists ofconclusions and implications of the study in policy level,practice level and provide some recommendations for further research followed by references and appendices.