Category: Education

Every researcher has a responsibility to protect the participants in an investigation. As part of their investigation researchers ask specific questions then use their intuition, curiosity, training, and statistics to answer the research question. Good scientists do not simply make decisions; instead, they use tools to determine the best course of action to make informed […]

A Critical Critique of Two Research Studies I reviewed and critiqued Yost’s (2006) and Sewell’s (2015) qualitative research studies, primarily to evaluate how well I was doing in developing my dissertation research plan (DRP) which was a qualitative study and was in the infancy stage at the time. This was one of the best decisions […]

How Data can Support Reflective Practice Reflective practice is a teaching strategy for improving teaching and learning which emphasizes learning as a personal, internal process of making meaning. Through reflective practice, learners adopt the acquired knowledge, then use that knowledge to modify their thinking, revise, integrate, and accommodate new knowledge. Developing an evaluation tool which […]

Reflective practice is a teaching strategy for improving teaching and learning which emphasizes learning as a personal, internal process of making meaning. Through reflective practice, learners acquire knowledge, then use that knowledge to modify their thinking as well as to revise, integrate, and accommodate new knowledge. Reflective practice can be likened to the concept of […]

The challenge for nurse educators is to implement teaching methodologies which help learners to view learning as a continuous process grounded in experience. Reflective practice is an instructional strategy that helps learners connect life experiences to what they are learning, as well as provide a different outlook to challenge existing thoughts, feelings, and actions; thus, […]