Naima is a speech and language specialist. She works with several students in a large elementary school. She uses mixed age groupings to work with children with specific needs. For example, she places all the students who are disfluent in one group. This year the age discrepancies in her groups seem particularly large and this has made her consider this as an area of focus for an action research study.
-By asking students how they feel about the mixed age groups, Naima may be demonstrating several characteristics of action research. However, in so doing she is best illustrating which of the following characteristics of action research?
A) Action research is democratic.
B) Action research is equitable.
C) Action research is liberating.
D) Action research is enhancing.

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By asking the students how they feel about the mixed age groups, Naima is demonstrating that action research is democratic, as she is involving the participants, in this case the students, in the research process and taking their perspectives into account in her decision-making.

Naima Is a Speech and Language Specialist