Dr. Gary Martin moderated this week's web conference.
The web conference this
week was very informative and reassuring.
Among other things, Dr. Martin discussed policies concerning research
with human subjects and Lamar’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), our action
research progress so far, and keeping life balanced as we continue on to the
completion of our year long internship.
Just as an aside, one of the major concerns of students in this week’s web conference was the text boxes in our assignments. The boxes were not expanding enough to contain all of the students work.
Dr. Martin discussed approval of projects, but that one of the main points of our assignment this week was to discuss IRB and the efforts institutions make to protect research subjects. Dr. Martin indicated that most of our research was not going to violate IRB policies. However, he recommended talking to administrators about our research about any research policies our districts may have.
After discussing IRB policies, he talked about publishing our research and that would be something that could be added to our professional vitae. He also mentioned that Lamar is trying to create an online repository of examples of students past action research. The idea being that it would be beneficial for colleagues not only for modeling of research for first time researchers, but also for those that may have a similar problem or need for action research on their campuses.
Lastly, Dr. Martin said that he wanted to let us know that this class was meant to be a “heads up”, and that our work did not have to be perfect at this time. Dr. Martin also pointed out that many of our colleagues at work will be watching to see what we do and will be, somewhat, judging us and our administration training program at Lamar. He suggested that we do not wear ourselves out as we go through our long term internship and to be sure and keep life balanced.
I went away from our web conference feeling confident that I was making progress, but that I wished that I was farther along with my project associtated with the research. Time goes on and as my colleagues at work and I get busier, completing the research project in a timely manner gets more difficult. I am enjoying the process as Dr. Martin suggested that we might.
Just as an aside, one of the major concerns of students in this week’s web conference was the text boxes in our assignments. The boxes were not expanding enough to contain all of the students work.
Dr. Martin discussed approval of projects, but that one of the main points of our assignment this week was to discuss IRB and the efforts institutions make to protect research subjects. Dr. Martin indicated that most of our research was not going to violate IRB policies. However, he recommended talking to administrators about our research about any research policies our districts may have.
After discussing IRB policies, he talked about publishing our research and that would be something that could be added to our professional vitae. He also mentioned that Lamar is trying to create an online repository of examples of students past action research. The idea being that it would be beneficial for colleagues not only for modeling of research for first time researchers, but also for those that may have a similar problem or need for action research on their campuses.
Lastly, Dr. Martin said that he wanted to let us know that this class was meant to be a “heads up”, and that our work did not have to be perfect at this time. Dr. Martin also pointed out that many of our colleagues at work will be watching to see what we do and will be, somewhat, judging us and our administration training program at Lamar. He suggested that we do not wear ourselves out as we go through our long term internship and to be sure and keep life balanced.
I went away from our web conference feeling confident that I was making progress, but that I wished that I was farther along with my project associtated with the research. Time goes on and as my colleagues at work and I get busier, completing the research project in a timely manner gets more difficult. I am enjoying the process as Dr. Martin suggested that we might.
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