Tuesday, August 07, 2007
I recently completed or passed my candidacy test for the doctorate in adult education in May toward the end of the semester. I hope to keep the blog more up to date outlining thoughts etc as I make movement towards the next phase which will be written comprehensive exams in January 2008.
The big thing now aside from reading a few books preparing for comps is putting together a doctoral committee and I need to inform them what my dissertation will be covering.
It's hard because I have two ideas: one involves community development and would entail a qualitative research method and the other involves measuring attitudes towards methods for paying for education for adults, and with measuring it will be quantitative.
So I'm spending time reading this summer to help decide. Also helping is the fact that no one really seems interested in the attitudes one... By the time the semester ended most professors were gone for the summer.
The big thing now aside from reading a few books preparing for comps is putting together a doctoral committee and I need to inform them what my dissertation will be covering.
It's hard because I have two ideas: one involves community development and would entail a qualitative research method and the other involves measuring attitudes towards methods for paying for education for adults, and with measuring it will be quantitative.
So I'm spending time reading this summer to help decide. Also helping is the fact that no one really seems interested in the attitudes one... By the time the semester ended most professors were gone for the summer.
