ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how a practitioner researcher might collect and use data while undertaking educational action research in their practice. It describes how teachers might engage in initial data collection to show the situation as it is at the outset of the research project. Readers will be introduced to data collection tools and how the data might be collected, triangulated and used. The chapter presents the reader with examples of how teachers have gathered data in their educational action research projects, the difficulties they encountered and how they dealt with them. The final section of the chapter explains the ethical issues pertaining to data collection, data collection strategies, data collection for student teachers and the purpose of data collection.
