Wednesday, July 27, 2016

proposal accepted: july 27

At the end of July I actually presented my dissertation proposal to my committee of three counseling faculty and my husband. It was a boring 2 hour long proposal, which I will amend greatly during my defense, but I got done....and approved! 

My next step should've been working on the IRB, but my job started up again. Everyone knows how difficult it is for a School Counselor and Teacher at the beginning of a new school year. Adding the stress of a looming IRB deadline was a bit much, so I focused on getting the school year off to a good start. Now it's September and time to crack down on the IRB. I was at lease able to check two more items off the list!

Happening this week: ordering my Official TTU ring!


Dissertation Completion List
  • Present proposal to dissertation committee
  • Complete proposed edits from the committee 
  • Complete CITI research training
  • Get initial permission from LISD to conduct study at LISD campuses
  • Submit study to IRB
  • Get final permission to conduct study at LISD campuses
  • Send study invitation to Principals in Lubbock ISD
  • Schedule intervention module sessions at 6 LISD campuses
  • Recruit participants at staff meetings after school 
  • Collect consent and pretest information
  • Separate participants into control and treatment groups
  • Invite treatment participants to treatment sessions and complete posttest
  • Send posttest information to control group participants
  • Analyze data using MANCOVA
  • Write up Chapters 4 (Results) and Chapter 5 (Discussion)
  • Schedule final dissertation defense
  • Graduate Spring 2017

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