How to do the Homi Bhabha Action Research Project?

Action research project means a project done with a scientific approach. At the Homi Bhabha Level 3 Exam, evaluation on Project work involves three aspects:

  1. Actually DOING a good action research project
  2. Submitting the Project Report
  3. Presenting the Project

Many students feel that project work means writing and pasting and decorating the project book. That’s not true! The report is just for presenting the project. But you have to actually DO the project work first!

You will probably go through the following steps:

  1. Select a relevant topic that you will ENJOY working on
  2. Identify the tasks, make them measurable
  3. Plan the actions that you will do
  4. Actually DO those actions
  5. Evaluate the results (even tell negative ones truthfully!)
  6. Take corrective actions
  7. Write the report AFTER you have finished doing the project

How to select the project topic?

• Intuition or gut feeling.
If you have an intuition about what you would like to do – go right ahead! Don’t ask anyone else if you should do it or not. Only thing you need to check is if it fits the given topic.

If you have no intuition at all, try this –

4 Step method

Step 1 = Listing the possibilities [Idea generation]

Brain storming to list possibilities

–Call suitable people around you
–Conduct a brain storming session. For approx 40 min.
–Just note down all the things they say.
–Only try to understand what they are saying.
–Do not try to convince them that the idea is incorrect or impossible. Just note the ideas.
–Get a list of possibilities. [around 15 to 20 points]

Step 2 = Rejection

• Give brief thought to each idea one by one.

• Reject or remove from list:
– If you don’t like the idea
– If you don’t think it will work
– If you think it is not achievable.
– Note the reason of rejection.

Now most of the ideas get rejected. You should be left with 4 to 6 possible ideas

Step 3 = Analysis and detailing

•You are left with 4-6 ideas. Do Analysis and detailing for each idea:

– Spend sufficient time on each idea.
– This is not the rejection round. Think positively
– Make detailed plan, as to what can be done. Try to plan how and when will you do that.
– Check feasibility.
– Modify the ideas the way you want to

Step 4 = Selection of final idea

From the available 4-6 ideas with analysis and detailing, try to select any one idea.

Finally, remember:

It is your project.
So do it the way you want to.

DETAILED ARTICLES TO HELP YOU PREPARE YOUR ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

  1. What is Homi Bhabha Action Research Project?
  2. How to write the Project Report?
  3. How to present your Project?
  4. Projects for 6th and 9th Std for this year
  5. Past years Project Photos

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What is Homi Bhabha Action Research Project in detail