After the work for week two, I now see that much of action research is data driven.  This is going to be something that I will have to learn to understand more fully.  I have trouble seeing how you can quantify anything that has to do with people and their actions; to me there are too many variables. Because we spend more time teaching Johnny to read a different way, that makes him score better on a test?  What if he scored better on a test because on that particular day, he was lucky? I don't see the control factor in research dealing with education.  Maybe after conducting my own action research plan I will.  That is my hope.