Skills and Perceptions of Secondary School Teachers in Conducting Action Research

AUTHOR(S)

ESTELA P. CABAHUG

ABSTRACT

—— Abstract —Teachers play a crucial role in conducting action research to address the issues and challenges in teaching and learning. The technical know-how and skills are needed to be acquired by teachers. Teachers must construct and acquire new knowledge to establish a conceptual grasp of it, hence a professional development framework is required that encourages ongoing professional development which conducting action research is one. Unfortunately, in the school, only a few teachers were motivated to conduct research study unless they are enrolled in graduate program. Thus, the researcher decided to conduct this study to determine the significant relationship between the skills and perceptions of secondary school teachers in conducting action research. A descriptive-correlational research design to determine the skills and perceptions of secondary school teachers using survey questionnaire used by Oestar and Marzo (2022) and Saro et al (2022) in their study and results were statistically treated using the simple percentage, weighted mean and Pearson r as tools to interpret the result of the study. The study revealed a very strong correlation between the skills and perceptions of secondary school teachers in writing action research. Skills and knowledge in writing action research is significant to be acquired by secondary school teachers to continually improve their teaching strategies for the betterment of the students they serve. Likewise, writing action research as perceived positively by the teachers will help solve classroom problems aside from being part of the professional development making an essential tool for improving teaching and learning process. Thus, development on the technical know-how of teachers in conducting action research and provision of activities to motivate them to positively perceived the importance and essentials of conducting action research must be prioritized and be taken into considerations as part of the professional development activities of teachers. Keywords — Skills, Perceptions, Secondary School Teachers, Action Research