Action Research Reports

In this section, you’ll find a collection of reports from different schools and districts that participated in action research with Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL). Each report highlights selected instructional strategies and discusses how those strategies enhance student achievement. The reports listed below show a sampling of the schools and districts that have participated. More than 300 volunteer teachers at 38 schools in 14 school districts have participated in action research projects between the fall of 2004 and the spring of 2009.

Get Involved
MRL invites you to be a contributor to the continuing research on 21 instructional strategies. Read more about these instructional strategies here. To submit dissertations and studies based on one or more of these instructional strategies, visit our Submit Research page, where you can upload documents and enter the specific strategy your work is based on in the comments box.

Vigo County School Corporation

During the 2008-2009 school year, 19 teachers at North Vigo High School and 19 teachers at South Vigo High School participated in independent action research studies regarding the extent to which selected instructional strategies enhanced the learning of students.

  • May 2009
    An Analysis of the Effects of Selected Instructional Strategies on Student Achievement at Terre Haute North Vigo High School
    View the report.

  • May 2009
    An Analysis of the Effects of Selected Instructional Strategies on Student Achievement at Terre Haute South Vigo High School
    View the report.



Goshen Community Schools

  • May 7, 2009
    A Summary of Findings on a Series of Action Research Projects Conducted by Goshen Community Schools
    This report summarizes the findings of an analysis of a series of action research projects conducted by Goshen Community Schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. During the 2008-2009 school year, 40 teachers participated in independent action research studies regarding the extent to which a six-step approach to direct vocabulary instruction enhanced the learning of students.
    View the summary report.

    View detailed action research reports for Goshen Community Schools, per level:


Blue Springs School District

  • January 2008
    Report on Action Research Projects Moreland Ridge Middle School, Blue Springs School District
    During the 2006-2007 school year, 47 volunteer teachers at Moreland Ridge Middle School conducted a series of action research projects for the purpose of examining the extent to which selected instructional strategies enhanced the learning of students.
    View the report.

  • April 2005
    Blue Springs School District Instructional Strategies Project: Final Report
    The Blue Springs School District Instructional Strategies Project began in the fall of 2004. It was designed to be a two- to three-year project, the purpose of which was to "institutionalize" effective instructional practices.
    View the report.