Sept+26+Discussion

=Dr's Crowson and Eseryel=

Research Questions
Dr. Crowson: How is the publishing process different for you when you are co-authoring an article on a research topic that is different from your own research interests?

Dr. Crowson: Can you explain the purpose of a mediation analysis? Dr. Crowson: How do you get around personal bias in research like this when doing self reporting. People tend to answer questions that make them look better than they may actually be. What sort of questions were used and how do you link them with specific scales of prejudice?

Dr. Crowson: When using statistical terms (e.g., "Cronbach's alpha" and "zero order correlation" in this article), is it ever customary to define the terms?

Dr. Crowson: You found that many of the variables were predictors of prejudice against international students. Is reporting and/or explaining the coefficients in the regression model common?

Dr. Crowson: Have you considered doing this study again with a different/older sample? Would the differences in world view (between old and younger adults) change the results significantly?

Dr. Crowson: Will there be a follow up to this study? If so will it be mixed methods?

Dr. Eseryel: How difficult is it to do a study with participants under 18?

Dr. Eseryel: How did you decide to use the Food Chain software for this study? Why this one and not another one?

Dr. Eseryel: To add to the question above did you worry about student prior knowledge of biology outside of lack ecosystems enough to consider creating a fictional scenario rather than useing Food Chain? What thinking played into that decision.

Dr. Eseryel: DId you choose 9th graders for your sample because they did not have instruction on lake eco systems yet?

Dr. Eseryel: How did you go about choosing your sample? What sorts of processes did you use to choose?

Dr. Eseryel: Can you explain the distinction between "inquiry supports" and "question prompts?"

Dr. Eseryel: Was there any consideration to using a coding scale with more data points (e.g., more than just the 0 or 1 for the Quality of Hypotheses)? Are there advantages to limiting the scale of the coding?

Vita Questions
Dr. Crowson: How do you get to become a reviewer for so many different journals? What does the review process entail from start to finish? Dr. Crowson: I noticed you have a masters in Rehabilitation Counseling. What took you away from that and lead you to Statistics? Dr. Crowson: You serve on >20 doctoral committees. Are the demands substantially less on the >17 that you are not the chair of? How do you keep them all straight? Dr. Eseryel: What, if any, are the difficulties in receiving 3 different degrees in 3 different countries? Dr. Eseryel: What sort of software do you use to design simulations and games? Is there a lot of actual programming involved or is it more GUI based? Dr. Eseryel: Having done research as a grad student outside the U.S., is there ever literature that you refer back to or currently consult that is published outside the U.S.? Is citing articles originally in a foreign language common practice? Any issues translating the cultural items?