Instructional Models and Action Research

Overview of instructional models:

The ADDIE model









Dick and Carey model mapping to other learning theories


Bloom's taxonomy
 Representation of the new terminology of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Change from Nouns to Verbs to describe the different levels of the taxonomy.
Top two levels are exchanged from the Old to the New version.





Action Research model


All participants – including the researchers, the teachers, and the students – contribute to the process by which meaning is extracted from the data and in decisions about modifications that are made in the next cycle or iteration.  


Proponents of action research often talk about involving all the major stakeholders in the evaluation process.  In the simplest case this means both the instructors and their students.” 
Bodner G, MacIsaac D, White S  (1999) 


The cycles in the ADDIE model and the Action Research protocol mirror each other, and thus are mutually enabling.