- Between weeks 8 and 14, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
- What data did you collect?
- What is your initial impression of the data?
- How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
- What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
- What are your next steps?
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Zoe and I have started working together on this project. We have decided that we will work together because we are both interested in criminal justice reform policy. Originally, I proposed a research paper. Being more familiar with a research paper format, I thought that this would be the best option because we would be able to deliver our research in a comprehensive manner. Zoe, however, has a bit of experience in iMovies and suggested that we turn our research project into a documentary!
We have to meet again to solidify our methods before I am able to name any concrete methods. However, we have agreed on a few things. Firstly, we want to do some student surveys. We agree that we both want to seek a diverse pool of students and ask them to identify themselves by their geographic location. We believe that a person’s geographic location may have some influence on their conception of public safety. Secondly, we know that we want to ask a selection group of students and do a spatial analysis on the maps they draw. We will give them a US map and ask them to label spaces where they perceive are “the most safe” or “the least safe”. Lastly, we know that we want to get a few student perspectives on interview. We will probably redact their identity in order to comply with IRB. We believe that students’ articulation on their public safety views can help add nuance to our documentary.
Just spoke to Professor Greene about the role of the IRB in our project. Seems as if no extra IRB clearance is needed because this is a class assignment and neither Zoe or I have the goal to distribute this project widely. This means we can start the process of survey design and participant selection. Before that however, I am going to try to find some of the clips that I think would work well as an introduction to the documentary.