Tag: target grades
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Learning R for quantitative analysis
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.…
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Data collection round 1 – psychometric testing for motivation types
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…
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Ethics update: approval!
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…
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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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