Following analysis of data from my second collection point, I decided I needed to ask more questions, and more specific questions, to really understand the impact of my interventions and so to be able to answer my second research question – ‘How can student definitions of ‘research’ be expanded beyond limited Western, imperial definitions of ‘research’, through my own teaching interventions?’
While the data I collected in Point B was useful, and implied my interventions had had a positive impact, I didn’t want to leave too much down to speculation. Aware of the range of influences the students were subject to and the extraneous factors that might effect the data, I wanted to find out more specifically whether the interventions had caused the changes in data I was seeing, as this would effect my teaching in the future.
I sent out an online survey to try and get some of that final data.