Wednesday, August 18 Educational Research
Vocabulary
No reading due for today
Reflection
The final class day in Educational Inquiry provided an opportunity for all of us to share an article critique. Students in our class researched a variety of topics from fitness and academic achievement to self-concept to art and negative emotions. Hearing my classmates share their opinions of the strengths and weaknesses of each article made me realize how much we learned in this course. I found a number of flaws in the study I shared with the class, despite the research problem itself being very interesting and significant to the future of physical education courses.
As I move forward and begin teaching again this year (I go back on Monday!), I wonder how I will utilize this information in my daily teaching life. I do think that I will use action research at times in my classrooms in order to improve the behavior or academic standing of a particular student. I also believe that I might someday be involved in writing an article for a journal using quantitative or qualitative research. I am not sure how it will happen or when, but I definitely have the interest.
