During this week of class, our assignment was to find a theorist that we would want to have a conversation about our topic with. This was kind of hard for me to figure out at first because I had no idea about any other theorists besides the typical ones that I learned about during rhetoric. And honestly, Kenneth Burke would probably not enjoy my topic as much as some other theorists might. So I started digging.
When I started my search I looked at training and development theorists, and ended up at learning theorists. My search ended with Albert Bandura with his Social Learning Theory. This theory was something I had never heard about, but stuck out to me. When I started reading more about Bandura and his theory, I knew right away that he would love to have a conversation with me about the Title IX trainings that I'm analyzing.
Bandura has four processes of how people learn and that's what he bases his theory off of. Those four processes are how something gets our attention, then how we retain it, then reproduction where we think that we can do something, and then the last one which is having the will to do something that we've just learned or watched.
In terms of how my project goes, I think that it would be super cool to figure out how exactly those four processes work and then put it into a training session to ensure that the students, faculty, or staff get out of the presentation or training what they are supposed to. If these four processes aren't put into play, then it is less likely that anybody will take anything away from it for a long period of time.
I really enjoyed this assignment because researching Bandura was really fun and so was learning about different ways that people learn. It's also very exciting that I now have something else to use for my literature review, which I think will give it a lot of the umph that it's been needing.
Monday, March 11, 2019
New Epiphany- Journal 3
The week after we did our oral argument presentations we sat in class and discussed any new pieces to our data or analysis that we'd discovered. At first I couldn't come up with anything and was just talking out of my butt trying to rack my brain for anything. And then as I was telling Dr. Bisha bout the survey results that I'd had so far, I made that realization that most of the responses had a couple of things in common with each other.
I discovered that the commonalities were about consent and drinking among the first year students. I'd made that discovery before and had never thought anything of it until that moment in my conversation with Dr. Bisha. There are many other components to Title IX than just consent and drinking alcohol. In fact, those aren't even the main topics. It's about so much more like sexual harassment, discrimination, and domestic violence. No where in any of the responses did the students say the majority of those things. A few of them talking about consent and sexual harassment, but most people don't even understand that there are so many other parts to Title IX.
I decided that the students didn't grasp these other concepts because they weren't focused on enough. In just about each section, alcohol was involved and the idea of consent. Which is good. But not the bigger picture. And even if the other topics of sexual assault or domestic violence were considered, alcohol is always the underlying factor in all of the scenarios that the online course talks about. If there is repetition, the students will remember it for a short time, but it won't last long enough. Dr. Bisha told me that I should look into articles on memory and repetition and see what scholars say about the idea to add on to my literature review. Which is also good because my lit review is lacking severely.
This epiphany that I got during this class helped spark my interest again. I feel like I was at a stand still in my excitement about my topic but because I finally had somewhere that I was going, it helped me to get excited again and want to do more research and get down to the bottom of why students aren't understanding all of the concepts given to them.
I discovered that the commonalities were about consent and drinking among the first year students. I'd made that discovery before and had never thought anything of it until that moment in my conversation with Dr. Bisha. There are many other components to Title IX than just consent and drinking alcohol. In fact, those aren't even the main topics. It's about so much more like sexual harassment, discrimination, and domestic violence. No where in any of the responses did the students say the majority of those things. A few of them talking about consent and sexual harassment, but most people don't even understand that there are so many other parts to Title IX.
I decided that the students didn't grasp these other concepts because they weren't focused on enough. In just about each section, alcohol was involved and the idea of consent. Which is good. But not the bigger picture. And even if the other topics of sexual assault or domestic violence were considered, alcohol is always the underlying factor in all of the scenarios that the online course talks about. If there is repetition, the students will remember it for a short time, but it won't last long enough. Dr. Bisha told me that I should look into articles on memory and repetition and see what scholars say about the idea to add on to my literature review. Which is also good because my lit review is lacking severely.
This epiphany that I got during this class helped spark my interest again. I feel like I was at a stand still in my excitement about my topic but because I finally had somewhere that I was going, it helped me to get excited again and want to do more research and get down to the bottom of why students aren't understanding all of the concepts given to them.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Post Oral Argument Presentation- Journal 2
A couple of weeks ago we had to do our first oral argument presentation in front of the English and Communications Departments. I was pretty stressed out thinking about it because I didn't want anybody to tell me to start over with my data or analysis. To prepare for the presentation, I had to make sure that I sent out my new and updated survey to the first year students, as well as the student leaders on campus. With this information I was able to have more clear and concise answers that I think are good enough to get me through until my final presentation and final paper. Since I am doing qualitative research on the survey results, it isn't the number of surveys that matters, but the quality of the answers.
Having my survey information definitely helped me feel more confident when preparing for the presentation. I was also able to meet with Dr. Bollinger and get some more resources for my literature review, which is a section that I was, and still am, lagging on. One thing I had to make sure that I mentioned in the presentation was my plan for adding on to my literature review and taking out some unnecessary information. I think that making these changes to my literature review will help bring me so much closer to end result of my literature review.
When I gave my presentation, we were able to get feedback from each person in each department to figure out next steps and different things to consider. As I was preparing for the worst, I believe that I had really positive feedback from each professor who gave it to me. Dr. Bollinger gave me some good advice, but also added on some points and thoughts that strayed away from where I was going with my topic. I still appreciated his feedback, like I always do, but it was more of a way for me to think about next steps for the future once I graduate.
After my presentation was done, I was surprised I didn't receive any feedback from Dr. Vrooman, but I had an email from him that had an article attached that I could use for my literature review, which I probably appreciated a lot more. Not only was there the article that he sent me, but there is about two whole pages of references that I can use as well to really enhance my literature review.
I think that overall my oral argument presentation went really well and has allowed me to successfully move forward with my research and my data collection for my analysis as well as researching for my literature review.
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