Please see our NEW ePortfolio page at https://lagcc-cuny.digication.com/student-experiences-research-group/stlyesheet.
Participate in a study of student experiences as both a researcher and subject of research.
Change your experiences of college by investigating them!
Contribute to knowledge about student-school relationships while developing skills in designing and carrying out research, observing, interviewing, analyzing data, communicating in multi-media formats, thinking critically, collaborating, and presenting your work.
Student Researchers will be both the "subjects" of research designed by the professor and the "researchers" in a study designed by the group.
For information about other research groups and the opportunity to get credit for research is available here: https://lagcc-cuny.digication.com/psychology_club/Research_Groups
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Required: - Willingness to be a participant-researcher in a cross- sequential participatory action-research study of student experiences - Ability to initiate activity and manage time (or willingness to work on this with a little support) - Eagerness to experience learning and development in a collective and egalitarian environment
Goals: - To work 6-8 hours per week on projects - To explore student-school relationships and related theory and research - To experience all stages of research - To explore academic culture - To expand professional and personal identities - To create meaningful relationships in an academic community
Activities: - Maintaining a journal - Video work - Planning and conducting observations, interviews, and surveys - Literature review and writing about the project - Multiple forms of data analysis - Weekly meetings - Conference presentations
Receive: - Mentoring - A supportive community - An opportunity to use classroom knowledge in the exploration and research of a personally relevant topic
Getting started: - Students are invited to contact Prof. Lara Beaty at larabeaty@gmail.com to discuss partipation. - Students are asked to agree to be "studied" but may choose to withdraw from the study at any time. - In addition to the meetings, students will be asked to: complete practice interviews and observations, read relevant scholarly material, learn to code and complete statistical analysis, and a variety of other research related tasks. -To become a full member of the group, students must: attendance >communicate resposibly with the group the meetings
More than one project may be undertaken simiulataneously.
Applications are required more as a way of gathering basic information than as a screening tool, but if you are interested please download and complete the form here.
Meetings for Year 6: 2016-2017
Group members are expected to commit to ONE meeting a week.
Potential weekly meetings for the 2016-2017 schedule are as follows:
Fall 1:
Fall 2: An all day retreat (12-7) is tentatively scheduled for Friday, January 13, 2017. We will also meet one day a week
Spring 1 (tentatively):
Note that the schedule will change if the group as a whole decides, but please plan accordingly.
All inquiries can be sent to Prof. Lara Beaty at lbeaty@lagcc.cuny.edu.
* The CITI Training is an internet based ethics training program that CUNY subscribes to. Information and a link can be found here: http://www.cuny.edu/research/compliance/training-education/citi-training.html Register as a student of the City University of New York, and provide an electronic version (pdf or other form) of the completion certificate, which is necessary for IRB applications.
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