When the focus of research is to improve a school in which the students are participants and the research supervisors are teachers, such research is termed as

Research aimed at improving a school, with students as participants and teachers as supervisors, is action research.

It cycles through planning, acting, observing and reflecting to solve a local problem.

Basic research seeks general knowledge and not immediate practical improvement.

Traditional research is a vague label, not this participatory form.

Supervisory research is not a recognised methodological type.

Practitioners themselves drive action research within their own setting.