Study of the Obstacles to Conducting the Action Research from the Primary School Teachers' Point of View in Bijar

Conducting the research by the teachers is one of the most basic ways of developing educational quality. The present study was carried out to identify the obstacles in the path to conducting the action research by the primary school teachers in Bijar, Iran.The research method was a survey method through which the attitudes of the primary school teachers regarding the obstacles to carrying out the action research were identified and prioritized. The population of the study consisted of 754 primary school teachers employed in the education department in Bijar in the academic year of 2013-2014.Based on Morgan´s table (1970) the sample size of the study was determined as 250 teachers which was distributed among six grades of the primary education through quote sampling method. The required data was gathered by the researcher made instrument, the reliability of which was estimated as 93 by using cronbach's alpha. The data analysis was performed by using SPSS, the findings of the study indicated that the individual obstacles to conducting the action research based on priority included: educational, attitudinal and skill obstacles respectively. The priority in organizational and skill obstacles involved motivational and structural obstacles. In analyzing the environmental obstacles, only one factor called the lack of the resources and facilities was identified. In general the results from this study suggested that in the case of absence of obstacles, teachers attempt to conduct research, and in this respect there is no difference between men and women.