Research

Discourse analysis

Description
Please see the brief presentation below. This research project used methods of discourse analysis to look at the communication interaction between beginning design students and design students nearly finished with their degree program critiquing one another’s portfolios in their respective degree initiative and capstone courses. The essential aim of the research is learner progression and measurement of learning throughout the program as related to design knowledge, critiquing capabilities, design problem-solving skills, and communicative nuance and clarity within a community of practice.

Rationale
The research demonstrated here shows my ability to discover the connections vital to understanding communication and language patterns within a team setting and revealing where organizations and institutions can make necessary adjustments or create and provide essential training or units within courses. Here, the project moves through the research process from understanding the problem/question and the operationalization process, collecting data and choosing appropriate methods of analysis, and presenting results via formats a wide variety of audiences could understand.

AECT Standards
Standard 3–Learning Environments
Standard 4–Professional Knowledge and Skills
Standard 5–Research

Research and intervention: CTTI’s sociobehavioral basic course

Description
In this initial research study, I analyze a basic CTTI course and develop an experiement to understand how to make it better for learners. Please see the PowerPoint.

Rationale
This longitudinal study demonstrates how I see things from a researcher’s perspective, and how I approach questions and instructional problems. To follow through with this research with funding could mean much better transfer of learning for all of us required to take CTTI sociobehavioral courses.

AECT Standards
Standard 3–Learning Environments
Standard 4–Professional Knowledge and Skills
Standard 5–Research