Dear Superwriters,
Sorry for the belated submission of report on two weeks ago, I will give a brief account on what we did on Oct.14th.
There are 7.5 members, Alam, Jessica Wan, mother-to-be Iris and her cute baby, Nicol, Jun, Lucia and Rina attend the meeting. We firstly shared our progress in the past week. Then Lucia shared with us her pilot study in 5 schooles including EBD(emotional behavior dissable) schools in Xiamen, China.
As Lucia introduced, most studens in EBD school are under-achievers, and they have some kind of emotional behavior dissabilities. They go to school to get used to the social enviornment.The academic atmosphere there is less oppressive, and more "nature".
We discussed some issues like how to handle the ethical issue when facing the EBD students, how to lessen the negative impact on participants, can we lie or not?
Iris shared her experience that sometimes, to get the reality, we may not expose our intention at the beginning ,but should tell the participants at the end. they may be more familiar with us and our research, and then they can understand and accept what we have done.
Lucia also focused on whether how many cases are enough in each school level. should she increase case amount to assure the research validity? if you have more idea or suggesions on this topic, please tell Lucia.
Wish everybody happy learning , good appetite and sweet dream everyday:)
Cheers,
Rina
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Thanks for the report Rina. I'd like to add one more thing which I thought was an important issue. Lucia mentioned that she wanted to do an analysis of three different youth groups with age differences, and tried to find out if there's any developmental stages.
Some of us argued that you can't say it's developmental unless you are doing a longitudinal study of the same group of youth.
But on second thought I think it's doable to certain extent. Take an example, I think you can study the spending behaviors of different age youth groups, then write a thesis to argue that for different age groups, how people's spending behavior is different or the same and in what ways. So this is a sort of developmental stage difference between different age groups. So it's doable, but you just have to be cautious about how you can justify your arguments with evidences.
So for Lucia's topic, for example, it'd be interesting to find out the difference in say 'peer' pressures in different age groups, and how they deal with it differently. But you gotta be careful whether the difference is mainly due to age or other factors such as personality, family influence, etc.
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