ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about gathering, presenting and interpreting data, and generating evidence to support a claim to knowledge. Chapter 8 deals with validating claims to knowledge.
In action research terms data refers to information. We systematically monitor what we are doing in order to gather information about it. We organise the data in a variety of ways, reflect on it, draw conclusions from it, and present those conclusions with the data for the critical scrutiny of others. We aim to make an original claim to knowledge, that is, to say that we know something which was not known before. To ensure that the claim is not seen only as our own opinion we have to support the claim with validated evidence, drawn from the data.
