This practical and easy-to-use book offers professional educators of any academic level, subject area, or position the tools, techniques, and strategies to disseminate, share, publish, and promote the results of their action research projects and studies.

Acclaimed author Craig A. Mertler offers a clear-cut guide for practitioner-researchers, covering the following:

A robust overview of action research/practitioner research, including its characteristics, processes, and professional benefits; Discussion of the main products for disseminating practitioner research, including written reports, presentations, and visual formats; Delivery strategies for disseminating practitioner research, including refereed publications (both practitioner and scholarly), face-to-face and virtual presentations (conferences, local presentations, and elsewhere), as well as social media and electronic media, from blogs and podcasts to Twitter and LinkedIn.

Written for any educational practitioner in any role-from in-service and pre-service teachers in PK-12 or higher education settings to scholars, administrators, policymakers, staff, graduate students, and other researchers-this book offers a pragmatic and motivational guide useful for any field of education in which practitioner research is component.