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Put simply, colleagues will need to know that the action research you are describing is real and not a piece of marketing spin. This means that we need someone's name, together with their contact phone number and / or email, so that they be contacted (a sample only will be contacted) to confirm that what you describe really happened.Hopefully you will anyway have involved some others in your work and observations and they would provide the ideal contacts. Be clear that their names and details will under no circumstances appear in any public pages or lists on this or any other website.
Who might these validators be? other colleagues in your school or nearby, a school governor or governors, colleagues from a local HE institution, a group of parents, people you know within a subject association, or even your students' themselves. Obviously in the case of school students we would conatct them though the school rather than directly. If your school has a students' School Council they may be a good validation group too.
In choosing your validators you may reflect on the bonus that by involving them, however slightly, you will help them to understand the reasons for your enthusiasm and you may convert a few hearts and minds to your ideas. They may also have thoughts and ideas that add to your own, so try not to regard the need for validation as a chore, but to see it as a necessary and perhaps useful, small extra task.
If finding a validator is in any way a big task, you are doing far more than is needed!
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