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Working to the Finish Line
Finishing up my senior year at Trinity I am seeing the end to a lot of projects, classes, schedules, and commitments. The completion of the Community Learning Fellows’ projects is also quickly approaching, and it is with great pride and … Continue reading
Asking the Right Questions: Designing and Conducting Interviews
After ten weeks of waiting for approval from the hospital’s institutional review board (IRB), I was finally able to begin the fieldwork stage of my research in the Labor & Delivery Unit. I spent the last semester reviewing the existing … Continue reading
Jumping Back into Metacognition Intervention
After a long break Tim and I returned to Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy, excited to resume our research. We are delighted to be working with our community partner, Ms. Avery, and her eighth graders, but we were nervous that … Continue reading
The 2012 Fall CLI Conference
On Tuesday December 11th, CLI Research Fellows who had completed a one-semester project presented their findings to members of both the Trinity and Hartford communities. Ben Rudy and Evan Sternberg, Genevieve Uslander, Gracie Phillips, Annie Arnzen, and Fionnaula Darby-Hudgens spent … Continue reading
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Preparing for the Final Poster Presentations
This past Tuesday was our final colloquium before the public presentation of research posters (to be held on December 11th, 2012 from 5:30-7pm in the Social Science Center at Williams). Being one of the four students conducting a year-long project, … Continue reading
Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: how interviewing shapes the research process
Formulating my research focus this fall, I wanted to understand how teaching artists can collaborate with social workers when engaging in art intervention with populations affected by incarceration. I chose to use the Judy Dworin Performance Project (JDPP), a arts organization in Hartford that works … Continue reading
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Teaching Metacognition to Eighth Graders
This year we are working on a thesis project that seeks to understand the role of metacognition in learning. Simply put, metacognition is thinking about thinking. It refers to the comprehension of and control over one’s own thinking processes. Metacognition … Continue reading
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La misa hispana: Ethnographic Research at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish
What is the ethnographic method, and why is it important to my research? Well, first, I can tell you in black-and-white terms: it is a process that allows the researcher to see questions or issues in their “lived context.” It … Continue reading
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The Power of Powerpoint
Last week, Instructional Technologist (and Powerpoint Wizard) Sue Denning hosted a workshop for the CLI Research Fellows in advance of their upcoming preliminary presentations. As one of the TAs of the colloquium and having completed independent research as a fellow … Continue reading
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Moving Forward: Interviewing Steppingstone Scholars
This semester, we are working with Steppingstone Academy Hartford to collect information on the benefits and challenges of the independent school experience for the students in their Steppingstone Scholars program. We are hoping that this information can be helpful for the … Continue reading