This unit is designed to introduce students to using action research as a means of enabling reflective, evidence-based practice thus informing their teaching and learning. The unit focuses particularly on the practical implementation of reflective processes through field-based research where students will face several teaching problems or issues. They will make a choice to investigate one of these, formulating a research question focused on improving or developing their practice. They will then design and implement a research project to further their understanding of their own teaching and learning within this focus area, and evaluate the outcomes of the research finding and the impact of the selected strategies used. The unit encourages students to develop an understanding of themselves as teacher-researchers through reflection on the findings from their research. This unit emphasises the development of self-regulatory strategies that provide a scaffold for continued use of reflective practices and use of evidence to inform this teaching.