October+10+Discussion

=Dr's Miller, Ge and Cullen=

Research Questions
__Dr. Cullen:__ How often is consent /support pulled after starting a research study? How problematic is it, and can it completely destroy a study? __Dr. Cullen:__ How are representations of NOS in children's literature erroneous? __Dr. Miller:__ How do you end up working with researchers from other institutions. Do you tend to have previous ties to them, such as a past student or colleague, or are you approached by outside researchers because ofyour stature with in a research domain...or both? __Dr. Miller:__ Was the selection of college students in English courses a matter of practicality and ease of collection, or was there a perceived advantage to selecting this type of course? __Dr. Miller:__ The model was tweaked during the study and retested on the data gathered. Was this a result of seeing something in the data and following where it lead, or was it a secondary consideration from the beginning?

Dr. Miller: In your analysis you talk about the goodness of fit bootstrap procedure, what is this procedure? When do you use it? Dr. Miller: If the analysis revealed that data was not proportionality (systematically) distributed, how would your team compensate for that, increase the sample size? Dr. Miller: When bootstrapping why did you choose 200 iterations?

Dr. Cullen: How much longer does it take to write a qualitative research article? What is the main difference between writing a qualitative research article and a quantitative research article? Dr. Cullen: You mention that topics for the workshops came from the teachers input, how difficult was it to be that flexible with your curriculum? Dr. Cullen: Did you have a change in participation from the teachers wen the school year started? Dr. Cullen: It seems that Kelly, Sabrina, and Christine's perception of science Empirical NOS changed the most between post summer one and post school year, was this true of the rest of the teachers also?

Dr. Miller: I can see the path from intrinsic future goals to proximal subgoal and even self-regulation strategies but I don't understand the path to perceived instrumentality all shown in the final model. You mention a possible lack of accounting for variation in the constructs by the measures of them. Is that the explanation or is there more to it?

Dr. Miller: You spend time going into detail about the demographics of the participants but never mention any of it again. This seems to be a theme when surveys are done. What is the importance of the demographic information if it is not what is being studied?

Dr. Cullen: How did you initially get the participants on board? You provided support (and coffee) once the study began but were there incentives on the front end?

Dr. Cullen: The range of participants' experience varied widely (1-28 yrs) but the NOS views seemed to all hover around the "adequate" and "adequate/informed" range. How important is it, when setting up a CoP to have a wide variety of previous knowledge, skills, experience, etc. among the members?

Vita Questions
__Dr. Cullen:__ Which is your favorite professional organization and why? __Dr. Cullen:__ What was the Honor's College Research Project? __Dr. Miller:__ How much has the field of Educational Psychology changed in the past 35 years since you received your PhD? And furthermore, how has the experience of being a Professor changed over the years? __Dr. Miller:__ Was Northern Illinois not a good fit for you? You were only there for about a year and a half before you moved on to Idaho? Was there something that drew you to Idaho? Then you received tenure and then left Idaho. Did you have to re-tenure at Oklahoma or did you come in with pre-tenure? Dr. Miller: What is an ad hoc reviewer of journals? How is it different from being a regular reviewer? Dr. Miller: what is the difference in the process for promotion to associate professor to full professor? Dr. Cullen: How do you afford to travel all over the world giving presentations? How does one go about doing that? Dr. Cullen: In the Fagg et al, (2008) Grant, what does T. evaluator mean? Dr. Cullen: How did you know OU was a fit for you and your career All: When you came to OU did you automaticially have M3 status, why do some faculty have lower status? Dr. Cullen: You list some professional organizations that you were formerly a member of. Is there an reason for (maybe membership dues?) discontinuing membership rather than just being temporarily inactive? How do you choose which ones to join? Dr. Miller: It appears as though you received tenure twice. Is this common to have to start over and go up for tenure again when going from one institution to another? Was it any different working towards tenure the second time around as compared to the first?