Classroom Action Research-based Instruction: The Sustainable Teacher Professional Development Strategy

Abstract The purposes of this research were to study the current situation and to compare the consequences of the Child Development Centre teachers on classroom action research-based instruction. The sample was 81 teachers of the Child Development Centre of the Local Administrative Organisation, derived from multi-stage random sampling. The instruments were the semi-structured interview form, and the measurement form of learning management outcomes, which the validity was between 0.80-1.00 and reliability was 0.968. The data were analysed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, content analysis and independent t-test. The results showed that 1) most teachers conducted informal classroom research to solve children’s behaviour problems and to increase the development of children. They usually utilised their research than others, but still not much. 2) the consequences of the classroom action research-based instruction were significantly higher than the standard requirement instruction at the .05 level of significance. The outstanding results have been discussed.