ABSTRACT
Action research is a name given to a particular way of looking at your practice to check whether it is as you feel it should be. You may be checking it as part of your critical reflection on your practice, or perhaps in response to a professional development review. If you feel that your practice is satisfactory, you will be able to explain how and why you believe this to be the case, and produce authenticated evidence to ground your claims that you are doing well. If you feel your practice needs attention in some way, you will be able to take action to improve it, and produce evidence to show how the practice has improved. You can show the relationship between your learning and your actions in the world: you explain how you have learnt to improve your practice.
