Final Learning Blog 2
Here we are finishing up our second
final blog. As a class we have been
working in groups on the research design/proposal. The next step will be to collect our research
on our “notecard” experiment. I feel
like my group has worked very well together and all three of us have been to
every class which makes working together much easier. Everyone is always helping each other if
someone is not sure about something. As
a group next week we will conduct our experiment. I am very excited to see the results and just
how students are going to react. I am
sure there will be many different reactions all over the board from not much of
a reaction of highly reacting. So at
this point my group has just completed the research and got the final
results. Wednesday we had a peer review
day that really was great and helped our group be able to get feedback from
other groups to put the final touch on our research paper. Tomorrow we will turn our final research
design in, and give an overview of our results to the class.
I have learned a lot from this
unit. The major thing I have learned is
the correct way to set up a research design, and what needs to be included in
it. During the first half I learned a
few new vocabulary words, and also what Juxtaposition was.
At this point I do not have any
questions as the unit is coming to an end, but like always I will ask when I
have a question. I realize it is much
better to ask and get exactly what the teacher is looking for, and not try to
take a wild guess and be totally wrong.
I feel like our group has
communicated very well. Each person was
able to pull their own weight throughout the group and each person always had
their part completed and ready to put into the research design. Looking at this project through a group
perspective we all were there for each class, and each time we were ready to
work. No one just sat there at any point
in time and let someone else do all the work, we all worked together to
complete the entire project.
I would just like to say that the
peer reviews have been very helpful to me.
Each person I have talked to has been very helpful giving me advice for
what I could improve on and ideas on how to improve it, and also what I have
done well. Also working in groups for me
has been fantastic. My group members
have been very hardworking and helpful.
College group work has definitely changed my perspective I had on it in
High School.
While creating this research design
I have been very confident. When given
this project I thought to myself that it would be very difficult to
accomplish. Taking the project step by
step has been very helpful. I believe
that taking the project one step at a time made the project be easier on each
group. As the project comes to an end I
feel very confident with the group results, and I am excited to see how
everyone else’s group turned out for them.
When creating the research proposal
each group member took one part of it.
In the “Statement of the problem” we just talked about how we would be
putting an academic paper on notecards to turn them into the teacher. On the “Purpose” we stated how the reason for
this was to see how people would react to turning in a paper in notecard form
for a final grade. Finally the “Research
Questions” were asked to see how students feel about turning their paper in on
notecards for a final grade. When
starting the research each group member randomly asked five males and 5 females
with one member asking a professor. When
finding the results we would give the notecards to the students and ask them to
“Read over them to see if everything looked ok since we were turning it in as a
final project.” Many people seemed to
become very confused at this point wondering why we would be turning it in on
notecards. After all the research was
done my group created a graph showing each person’s major that we asked, and on
a scale from one to ten how they reacted.
So all in all, I feel like this project was a success for my group.
