Monday, April 9, 2012

4.9 Brandt, Breuch, Matsuda + research proposal workshop

Good discussions on the theorists.  See Marie, Jacqueline, Wayne + Musheerah's papers to the right.

You spent the second half of class working in groups on your research proposals.  (see last chapter in Mertens). My homework regarding these discussions is to send references to:


  • Laurelle on narrative research, life course development + memory
  • Simone on commenting on texts
  • Jen on assessment/design of poetry courses
  • Wayne on high stakes testing = the validity, purpose + how/whether low scores correlate with low grades & other measures of success
  • Jackie on mixed method studies to do research on assessing effect of teaching methods/new courses
I will also bring a sign up sheet for the conferences Monday April 30.

For next week come to class prepared to workshop some of  your writing for the first section of the proposal + some ideas writing for the methodology section.  We will work on designing your research intstruments.
Read: Mertens, Ch 14  Research instruments;  Selfe & Selfe, 739;  Wysoki, 717 , Yancey, 791

Great class (as always) and see you next week.

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