The first week of my official "researching" phase has come to an end. Now that school is almost over, I hope to dedicate more time to my research and have more time to spare. I never realized how much time an entire school day plus homework can consume of my day. I am happy to finally commit myself to my research, so I can finish early. There have been a few advancements in concerns to my project: the number of participants I have collected, my statistical analysis, and the improvement of my literature review and methods.
I have collected two more participants, which means now I have 6 total. So far, I have collected 2 adults and 4 children. It has definitely gotten easier with practice to explain my project and assure people that their information will be confidential and useful to the sphere of psychology as a whole. I feel more confident in asking people and am sure I can obtain more in the upcoming weeks, especially when I am coming in full time and more regularly.
In terms of my statistical analysis, I was able to greatly clarify how I can organize my data. I plan to create a table with the scores for the first reading and the last, with documents dedicated to the patients. With a table constructed, I can simply just put in the values and calculate the means when I get home. I can copy and paste the same table to multiple patients, like forms to fill in. I hope this system can make it easier to collect the data I need more efficiently and quickly.
Finally, with the help of Mrs. Haag, I think I have improved my literature review and methods immensely. Not only were the vital but easy to forget details like grammar and citations corrected, but the organization of my literature review was modified to ensure that little paragraphs wouldn't be my downfall. I was able to consolidate statistics about adult ADHD with the evolution of childhood ADHD into adult ADHD. This way, readers can have the context of the number of individuals with adult ADHD before the explanation of why it arises is presented. I was also able to use the disadvantage of neurofeedback therapy of its lack of research to transition into the gap in the research that I will fill. The transitions were made much stronger, quotes were not used to end or begin paragraphs, and technical terms were made clear. Overall, I think it is in much better shape. I had not realized a lot of the mistakes it had, but having other people read it greatly helped in changing my perspective and understanding that not everyone understood the same terms that I spent weeks researching and familiarizing myself with.
In the upcoming weeks, I look forward to proofreading my literature review and methods and submitting the two assignments, gathering more patient consent, recording more data, and beginning to start the analysis of the scores I collect.
(501)
I have collected two more participants, which means now I have 6 total. So far, I have collected 2 adults and 4 children. It has definitely gotten easier with practice to explain my project and assure people that their information will be confidential and useful to the sphere of psychology as a whole. I feel more confident in asking people and am sure I can obtain more in the upcoming weeks, especially when I am coming in full time and more regularly.
In terms of my statistical analysis, I was able to greatly clarify how I can organize my data. I plan to create a table with the scores for the first reading and the last, with documents dedicated to the patients. With a table constructed, I can simply just put in the values and calculate the means when I get home. I can copy and paste the same table to multiple patients, like forms to fill in. I hope this system can make it easier to collect the data I need more efficiently and quickly.
Finally, with the help of Mrs. Haag, I think I have improved my literature review and methods immensely. Not only were the vital but easy to forget details like grammar and citations corrected, but the organization of my literature review was modified to ensure that little paragraphs wouldn't be my downfall. I was able to consolidate statistics about adult ADHD with the evolution of childhood ADHD into adult ADHD. This way, readers can have the context of the number of individuals with adult ADHD before the explanation of why it arises is presented. I was also able to use the disadvantage of neurofeedback therapy of its lack of research to transition into the gap in the research that I will fill. The transitions were made much stronger, quotes were not used to end or begin paragraphs, and technical terms were made clear. Overall, I think it is in much better shape. I had not realized a lot of the mistakes it had, but having other people read it greatly helped in changing my perspective and understanding that not everyone understood the same terms that I spent weeks researching and familiarizing myself with.
In the upcoming weeks, I look forward to proofreading my literature review and methods and submitting the two assignments, gathering more patient consent, recording more data, and beginning to start the analysis of the scores I collect.
(501)
Sunskruthi, I'm glad that you're reflecting on the process, and I'm glad to hear some of the changes that we talked about making their way into your blog.
ReplyDeleteI want to hear more, though, about how many people more you CAN approach, to determine if you're likely to meet your goal of participants (I believe 12 children and 12 adults).
Hey sunskruthi! It sounds like you have made vast improvements on your methods and literature review which is super awesome. I think that having the extra time is going to be so beneficial for all of us and it's going to be very exciting to focus on research. Also very scary. But exciting! I think that you really need to focus on meeting your sample size goal, because that is a big part of maintaining the validity in your study. Just be persistent! If it's not a no, then make it a yes!
ReplyDeleteAlso, the table sounds like a great way to organize your data but just make sure that you are able to keep everything lined up in the best way for you to draw results from it. As long as it works for you, then it'll be awesome, especially because you're going to have so much data. I'm super excited to see what you'll be doing next! Good luck with finding people (I know I'll need it too lol)
Hey Sunskruthi! I just wanted to begin by saying that I am so glad that you are already beginning your research. I know that a lot of people, myself included, have not gotten to this step yet, so you should be proud of what you have done so far.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of organizing your data, I also think that a table is a good data. From what it sounds like, you are going to have a lot of data, so this should be a pretty effective way of doing everything. Like everybody else said as well, I think that right now you just need to focus on getting the rest of your participants so keep working on that. Good luck with that! Keep doing great!