In the end it was worth it.

The semester is nearly over, just one class to go to and one more assignment to turn in! 

Tonight was my last research class.  This was the class that we all loved to hate.  It was a boat load of work, very tedious, extremely time consuming, and it killed so many trees! My research partner and I conducted an entire action research study.  Entire! From research questions to literature review, to proposal, to data analysis and triangulation, to poster and presentation.

 Now that it is all said and done, it was so worth it.  I learned such an important skill - we essentially designed and carried out a study and have a paper and findings that are worthy of being published.  To think that I did all of that in less than 10 weeks is remarkable!

 I am super proud of how hard Meredith and I worked this semester.  We really knuckled down and our findings will help the little girl we did a case study on, and that was the point of the research - to make positive change in the setting.

My professor said she will let each of know if there is a conference where we could present our studies, and now after all is said and done, the prospect of being able to present findings to a journal makes me giddy! I may have been super apprehensive about this required course in January, but I may have caught the research bug!