This week was all about revising, editing, and finalizing my action research plan, and making the necessary adjustments to ensure that this study would be as efficient and effective as possible at providing possible solutions and answers to the question, "Do student-athletes perform better, academically, in-season or out of season?"
My site mentor has been a great resource throughout this process and helped me a ton this week, specifically. She was able to provide some valuable insight to my project and gave some really applicable advice that will prove truly valuable to this study. She suggested using Survey Monkey as a resource for gathering and examining information for my research, as well as recommending some questioning techniques and actual questions to ask on those surveys that would assist me in developing a plan to solve this issue.
My biggest concern with this week's assignment was to make sure that the questions I used were completely relevant to my study, that the research plan, itself, made sense and had a natural flow that made sense. My site mentor was able to speak to these questions by providing some clear direction to my project where I was unsure, and made certain that I left our meeting feeling confident in my work.
Your mentor sounds like she is a great help to you as you do you action research paper. I will probably need to use a survey method too. Maybe we need to get together and look at how to use that for our research. We can work together on a lot of this. Maybe we need to get together every so often and see our progress just to help keep accountable. I'll talk to you later about that.
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