Action Plans can be formal or informal, depending on the nature of your action research project.  An action plan may be as simple as a brief statement or simple description of a new teaching strategy or practice, or as complex as a formal outline for presentation or professional report. There are five possible outcomes for action research studies: 

• A greater understanding of an issue, situation, or child is developed

• A new problem is uncovered

• An instructional method or practice is found to be effective

• An instructional method or practice is found to be lacking and in need of modification

• An instructional method or practice is found to be ineffective