Educational Research Pre vs. Post Knowledge

Hi I am Brianna Dingle and um this is my

project for Educational Research where I will be reflecting on

my pre knowledge and my folks knowledge of research and

how I plan to use this in the future.

I first want to start off by saying that I

really enjoyed this course.

I thought it was very, very informative and I learned

so much about research that I previously did not know.

Um so first just giving an overview of exactly what

I'll be discussing.

First I will touch on my pre knowledge.

Then I'll talk about my post knowledge and how I

plan to use educational research in the future and in

my future classroom.

All right.

So first, the Pre knowledge, um I will talk about

um what my strategies were for searching the internet for

research, How I found credible sources and how I previously

summarized my findings before taking this course.

Are you still searching the internet?

So at first I thought research was as simple as

looking for the answer on the internet.

I believe that most meaningful answers could be found by

a quick search on google or any search engine.

And um throughout the the time of discourse, I've learned

that research is so far from just looking and answer

up and finding your own individual answer.

It's more about looking at what professionals have already said

and information that they've already gathered um for this particular

topic that you are trying to study.

Um I believe that research was about finding credible sources,

which I still believe to be true.

Um but I also believe that these sources could be

from any website or organization with a credible author, which

this is not necessarily true.

And lastly, I thought research involves summarize summarizing your findings

and research, which it does, but I specifically believe that

it didn't necessarily have a particular format besides giving credit

to the appropriate sources.

All right.

So now that we've touched on my pre knowledge, I

want to talk about what I now know as a

result of taking this course.

Um So I now know how to better use databases

for research.

I now know how to analyze qualitative data.

Um I now know how to write an article review

in a literature review to present my findings for a

specific topic.

So using databases for research.

So I previously had I had previous knowledge of how

to access and use databases for research um Throughout my

experience with undergrad and having to write different things for

my assignment stand.

Previously I used databases like J.

Store and Gail.

Um This course taught me which databases were helpful to

use for research.

Um Some of the ones that I had used an

undergrad, I realized that they were as efficient for finding

the information that I needed.

Um So I was able to find a thorough plethora

of useful research using google scholar and academic search databases.

These are the ones that I personally found most helpful

for me during this course and um I personally believe

that they will be very helpful if I had a

question that I needed to be answered in the future.

Um also learn how to evaluate and review sources for

research as a result of using the databases.

Um data analysis.

Previously I had no experience with digging deep into data.

Um this course definitely taught me how to find common

themes and categories and research by picking apart common words

and phrases.

So specifically, um in this course we had to analyze

qualitative data um so we had to look at interviews

or observations are different surveys and stuff that I was

able to see when I was.

Um throughout the duration of this course.

And um I definitely found um analyzing this data very

very very um It was a great learning experience and

it was very helpful because I now feel as if

I'm better equipped to look at research and make meaning

of it.

Um Next article reviews before this Of course I had

never written an article review nor did I even know

what an article review was, but I took so much

away from writing the article reviews, completing the article reviews

enhanced my knowledge of exactly what a research study was

and the components that it included.

So for example um what exactly should be an introduction,

participants, results, conclusions, literature review.

Um I never really had to look at a research

study for anything.

So completing that assignment helped me to realize exactly what

a research study was and what it should include.

It also helped me learn how to better locate and

evaluate sources, which is something I can use in my

future classrooms.

Um When I first had to do this first article,

a few assignment, I did find it kind of difficult

to locate um meaningful sources for the topic that we

had to answer.

But by by the end of that project I found

myself more comfortable with trying to locate and evaluate those

sources from the databases and lastly in the literature reviews.

So previously I was unaware that literature reviews provided insight

to what research is already on a topic, so it

tells you what's already out there, what people already know

about the specific topic that you're researching.

So right in the literature review in this course enabled

me to make connections between research, which is something that

I previously did not have to do.

Um And most importantly, I feel like this is um

one of my major things that I'll be taken away

from this course is that it taught me that it

is not all about summarizing the topic, but also adding

in your own perspectives and insights.

And so um I think that is something great that

I can take away from this course is that it's

not all about spitting out or regurgitating all of the

information that you're reading, but it's also about adding in

your own interpretations and your own perspectives and contributing to

the research yourself.

And so now not, I've taken this course, not that

I learn more about research and how to um implement

those strategies and methods, how will I use it in

the future?

So, educational research and research in general will be helpful

for me in the future, especially as an english teacher

taking this course has taught me how to dig deeper

into information and to look at it from different perspectives.

Um and like I said, it's also taught me that

it's okay to add in my own perspective, I can

use this new information to help my students as they

do future research.

I can also use my new research skills to research

best practices and strategies that can be useful in my

classroom. Um so like I said, I really enjoyed this

course. Um it was very informative and it was definitely

a great learning experience.

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