Last week I met a president of a historically black university who told me that the best thing he does for students is make them aware of where they are in the educational race. Once students are aware- they can take action that moves them forward at a faster rate.
This awareness raises questions: what kind of awareness levels exist in elementary school boys? Are there tools that can impact that awareness and then is there a corresponding improvement on performance?
I want to make a web of potential studies and then think about the types of findings each one can bring.
For example- could a case study provide more useful knowledge than a phenomenology?
I then have lots of questions: Who are the experts out there? Which types of key words do I need to search for in the literature? (student ownership, goal setting, achievement gap, African-American males, cultural proficiency) I could create a data folder system and compare ones that include goal setting and one that doesn't.
This would preclude that a data folder is a solid tool- it is the design of this folder that needs some sophistication.
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