Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 87 === The purpose of this research is using cooperative action research to improve the instruction of the case teacher according to her needs in an junior high biology classroom. There were three strages in the process. In the first stage, the target was to focus on the teacher''s teaching problem and to design the possible strategies to solve it. In the second stage, the target was to take action and to estimate the influences according to the action, and to adjust the coming action according to the collected data related to students'' learning. In the third stage the target was to evaluate the results of problem solving according to the actions and reflections. This study was lasting for three monthes. The data were collected by classroom observation, interviewing the case teacher and the students, and by questionnaires. Using triangulation to data, to researchers and to research methods. The constant comparison method was used to analysis collected data. The findings of this study are : (1)Whenever the teaching belief, teaching objectives, and teaching strategies are fitted each other, then the case teacher''s problem is solved. (2)The benefit of cooperative action research to the case teacher is to give her the assistance and support in order to last three monthes'' actions and to encourage her to do reflective thinking on the fitness of her teaching belief, teaching objecties and teaching strategies. Both the case teacher and researcher are growing on the professional knowledge in teaching according to the process of the cooperative action research.
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