An update on how things have been going for my senior thesis project:
This project itself has been a whirlwind of emotions. I've truly enjoyed the research I've done so far on the trainings done at TLU. Coming in to this semester, I had already sent out a survey to the first year students and the student leaders on campus to get their feedback on their experience with TLU's Title IX training. However, there were some flaws in that survey and Dr. Vrooman and I decided that it would be a good idea to send out a new survey this semester. This survey has the same questions on it that the first one did, but was sent separately to the two groups of students.
So far, I've received twelve surveys from the first year students, and nine from the student leaders. Although this is not the highest number I was looking for, since I'm doing qualitative research. This means that I am focusing on the content of the responses as opposed to the number of responses.
As I continue to hopefully get more survey responses, I will compile those and analyze the responses to see if it meets the criteria that I will create about whether the trainings are effective, and which one may appear more effective than the other.
On top of figuring out my data, the other thing that I need to make sure I go back and fix is my literature review. With feedback from Dr. Bisha, as well as reading through it myself, I have decided to take out the information that I have on the NCAA in the beginning of my literature review. To replace this information, Dr. Bollinger has given me some books to look through to get more information on the training and development side of training. I will also make sure to look through the library database with different key words to find more information just to broaden the information in my lit review. I look forward to bringing things closer together and seeing where I'm at after our oral argument presentations.
