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Mentoring Graduate Students Through The Action Research Journey Using Guiding Principles, Sarina Chugani Molina, Joi A. Spencer

School of Leadership and Education Sciences: Faculty Scholarship

Our department has adopted action research (AR) projects as the culminating task for our master's degree candidates. This paper presents our work on mentoring our graduate students towards the completion of their final AR research projects and details the deliberate structures we have put in place to guide them through the AR process. These structures include a fullsemester course, individual meetings with an AR Chair, and collaborative facultystudent feedback sessions. These collaborative conversations (between students and faculty) have allowed us to clarify our understandings (as a department) of AR, set standards and goals for AR, and raise our expectations on …