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  • Learning R for quantitative analysis

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    As I’ve discussed before, I learned to use the R programming language (using RStudio IDE) to conduct the quantitative analysis for my EdD degree. In this post, I’ll outline how I learned what I learned, and what I used that knowledge for. All the code I wrote is viewable in the GitHub notebook found here.…

  • Autonomy, time-management and homework-setting

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    Following coding data from focus groups according to the three main aspects of self-determination theory (as well as a few other common factors that have arisen through reading the transcript), I have started sub-coding data too. The first sub-code (under the ‘autonomy’ main code) relates to time-management and homework-setting, and I’ll outline how students from…

  • Data collection round 1 – psychometric testing for motivation types

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    It’s finally started! On Thursday 22nd September 2022 I started the data collection phase for my main doctoral study. Since then, I have conducted a focus group (which will take far longer to analyse in any useful detail), but in this post I’ll outline some of the headline findings from the first of three psychometric…

  • Lessons from Pilot 2

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    In a previous post, I wrote about what I learned from running a pilot study for my EdD, before the main study starts in September 2022. In a nutshell: it went terribly, and that was the best outcome I could’ve hoped for. You can read about this in a post I wrote about the first…

  • Ethics update: approval!

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    In my last post about this, I had just submitted my ethics application. In this post I’ll talk about the feedback I received, and how I have addressed those issues. Administrative points Some of the information that was required for the ethics proposal was missing. Rookie. This meant that I’d forgotten to put in some…

  • The ethics process so far

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    I have just filled out the application for ethical approval for my research, and am waiting for the results from the committee. I’ve found that writing about the aims of the research, including what I want to get out of it wasn’t too difficult. I used the proposal as a chance to work out where…

  • Achievement goal theory and target grades

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    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?…

  • Systematic literature reviews and ‘trusting the process’

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    “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.…