Doctorate Students Conducting Research

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  1. Actressdancer

    Actressdancer New Member

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    Some University of Iowa Students are conducting a survey about homeschools, motivation, and curriculum choices.

    The intro page gives all the information. Except it says it should take between 10 and 15 minutes. I think it took me 4. lol

    https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5sU5V0d0swIQv9q
     
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  3. Jackie

    Jackie Active Member

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    Did it!!!
     
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    I don't want to sound paranoid, but I hope this research is done for good reasons and not just to "prove" how we are doing wrong with our children.
     
  5. Actressdancer

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    I had the same thought, but the questions to ask for any "results." Which means there's no way to prove if we're doing wrong (or right) by our children. Having been involved in post-graduate level research, when one discloses the purpose of a study (as they did in the intro page), they are legally obligated to use the results ONLY for the stated purpose. I can't see how they could draw a "we're messing up our kids" conclusion from the correlation between motives and curriculum.
     
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  7. Brooke

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    Well, it would have easily taken me 15 minutes to fill out all the different things we use for the various subjects if I hadn't been teaching two students two different subjects while trying to fill it out! :lol: Instead, it took more like half an hour.
     
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    Hahaha. Yeah. I'm still in grade school + full time work = box curriculum mode.
     
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    Me too, only I have 4 who don't all use the same curricula for each subject! They special needs/gifted questions only allowed for an answer for one child. It should have allowed you to answer for each child
     
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    well if it is trying to prove us wrong my testimonial at the end will stop them hahah!
     
  11. TeacherMom

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    Brooke we took the same time most likely but I was directing a student to take tylenol and rest after coming back from the dentist ( light school day watching videos) and took two to college classes then came back to finish it.
    I found it really brief and not overly information draining.
     
  12. Jackie

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    I did say that the questions were overly simplistic.
     
  13. TeacherMom

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    Well I hope they find out that us home teaching parents are doing a great job!
     
  14. Brooke

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    What I really wanted to comment on was the pitiful use of grammar and spelling in their opening letter that made me doubt the validity of the research. :roll:
     
  15. TeacherMom

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    Hmm.... I didn't notice because I was so busy trying to do more than one thing at once, also because I figured it was college students and these days they seem pretty lazy at that sort of thing. ( I probably broke a few rules myself in this long sentence lol)
     
  16. Jackie

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    I didn't notice, either. I'll go back and check....

    Your grammar must be better than mine! I still didn't notice any. I'll have Rachael look at it later. Her grammar teacher a few years back told the kids the first person to notice a mistake on any paper he handed out would get extra credit, so she learned to look for them. That was five years ago, and she still picks up on them. Says that English teacher "ruined her for life", lol!
     
  17. Brooke

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    Yes, I'm nitpicking, but on the doctorate level, please do your homework.....

    I had planned on teaching secondary English before leaving college. Guess I get to teach that plus so much more.....sigh....;)
     
  18. leissa

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    Brooke, I noticed the same things!
     
  19. MomToMusketeers

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    Did it!! I love taking surveys, and filling out forms :):)

    (crickets chirping)

    Am I weird?
     
  20. Jackie

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    AH! I'm still one of those whose mind automatically "corrects" mistakes, lol!
     
  21. Brooke

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    My brain hasn't downloaded the auto-correct app yet, Jackie. Besides, I read slowly to suck out all the marrow of that which was written; sadly, it lends itself to noticing errors.

    ...And now I'm paranoid to post incorrectly. It's not like I'm writing a dissertation, right?!
     

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