Abstract

• The purpose of this study was to survey teacher educators on the implementation of action research in Education Colleges. A survey method, which is one of the descriptive designs, was employed to collect the relevant data from the respondents. The subjects were (300) teacher educators in Monywa Education College, Mandalay Education College, Magway Education College, Pakokku Education College and Sagaing Education College. The questionnaire includes (40) Likert-scale items. Descriptive statistics such as percentage and mean were used to analyze the data. Furthermore, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent samples t-test were also used to compare statistically significant difference among the sample Education Colleges, degree and teaching experiences. The results of the study revealed that most of the teacher educators possessed positive perceptions on the implementation of action research in Education Colleges, but knowledge, skills and experience of teacher educators in the selected Education Colleges were insufficient. The level of principal’s encouragement to conduct action research was insufficient in such areas as establishing action research clubs in Education College, allocating budget to conduct action research, providing reference materials for their research activities and arranging research training in Education Colleges. Therefore, teacher educators are highly affected by the factors that hinder them to conduct action research. It was found that, a commitment in fulfilling and supplying sufficient reference materials for continuous trainings, workshops and action research competitions is a necessity.