Category: Academic Research Blogs
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Research Proposal: Students’ Experiences of Target Grade Use as an Extrinsic Motivational Tool
After a wee break whilst my supervisors, David and Dillon, marked my proposal, I’m absolutely elated to say it passed, and I’ve been allowed to continue to the thesis stage of the EdD. Woohoo! I’d like to add at this point that both were instrumental in helping me develop my thinking, and provided really helpful…
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Proposed research methods poster
In this post, I upload the poster I’ve ‘presented’ as part of the proposal for my EdD thesis. I put presented in quotes because it wasn’t a traditional presentation; since most of my course is part-time (since we are mostly teachers or other education professionals full-time), we sent our posters and a voiceover recording to…
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“How did your systematic review go?” Well…
I didn’t fail! So that’s good. For the uninitiated, I spent my Easter break from school (about six weeks ago now) writing a systematic literature review about the use of target grades in schools as a method of motivation for secondary-age pupils. It became clear early on (but perhaps not early enough) that this links…
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Imposter syndrome
Imposter syndrome isn’t a new thing. It’s clear from my Twitter timeline that it’s far more common than a lot of people think it is, and I’m certainly in that group. In this post I’ll talk a bit about where I’ve experienced imposter syndrome, and how I’ve tried to overcome it. Experiencing imposter syndrome as…
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Achievement goal theory and target grades
In my first blog post (about the systematic review process), I mentioned that the process had forced me to investigate some theories that relate to the topic I’m interested in. One of the theories that comes up most frequently is achievement goal theory. Hopefully this will explain it well enough. What is achievement goal theory?…
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Systematic literature reviews and ‘trusting the process’
“Oh, a systematic literature review is probably just another name for a normal literature review. I’ve done those before. That’ll be easy!” How wrong I was. On an EdD (a ‘professional doctorate’, i.e. designed for practitioners), there is a taught stage before moving onto the thesis. On my course, there are two taught doctoral-level modules.…
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