This course, Educational Research, has been my toughest course so far! Luckily, its professor was great at walking us through the content. I think this course was most difficult because it has been furthest from my comfort zone. I knew very little about quantitative and qualitative research, nor did I think I could successfully analyze it. However, Dr. Dias has been great with walking us through analysis of research. I thought the synchronous session with a practice run of our "Annotated Article" was highly beneficial because we were able to work through it together before attempting it on our own. In addition to the practice before our independent work, I like the way Dr. Dias split up our Capstone Proposal into sections. This made my proposal seem like a manageable "mountain" to climb. Her timely feedback was great because she provided specific details AND reasoning behind it. This helped me actually learn, rather than feeling like I was just "jumping through hoops".
The Capstone Proposal and the analysis on multiple research articles have built my confidence in this area. I am no expert, but I feel as though I can trust myself to analyze research for my school. This is a quality needed for anyone working with Instructional Technology. One of our standards requires us to analyze and evaluate tools, so my new understanding of how research is conducted and then presented will help me exhibit this within my field.
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