My Life #9

          So with all the projects and things winding down I can feel myself getting TIRED. I am working really hard on my senior thesis which is going to be about 30 pages long. I am working on it and coming up with some real dead ends. It is about the intellectual struggle that students feel in the classroom that may impair their learning, or enhance it.

SO WHAT?
So what I am doing now it finishing up all the results from the survey that I sent out. It is located here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WG6GHJR. It is a pretty basic survey that has ten questions. So far we have had 55 responses and I am looking forward to finishing it so that I can be done. I have worked on this for the entire semester and have spent hours researching a topic that barely exists.

NOW WHAT?
Now all I can do is buckle down and finish. In fact I have finished that abstract which is located below.
I am really excited to finish and get this beast published!

Intellectual Struggle: Eastern and Western Culture, and Teaching in the Classroom.

Mitchell Palmer

Brigham Young University

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of intellectual struggle in the classroom among Korean university professors.  The intent is to 1. Gain a clearer understanding of Korean teaching methods in relation to promoting intellectual struggle in their classrooms. 2. Gain a clearer understanding of the potential benefits and drawbacks of this type of teaching method for purpose of this study is to examine the concept of intellectual struggle among students in the classrooms among Korean university professors. 3. Gain an understanding of how the promotion of intellectual struggle by a Korean professor affects American college students. 4. Promote cultural understanding in an effort to improve student and teacher experiences in a multi-cultural classroom.            To better find an actual rate or percentage of students that are struggling in the area of “Intellectual struggle” a 10 question survey was sent out to American and Korean university students who have had both Korean, and American teachers in their classes ranging from the first and second year students to the students learning Korean at a fourth year level, as well as previously mentioned, native speakers.. The survey was conducted via surveymonkey.com, and was sent via email to students. The survey consisted of question that has been reproduced with formatting edits in Appendix A and B. We asked 10 questions, with 6 of the questions utilizing the polar questions format, and the other questions asked each surveyor to write or describe their answer. Based on the results gathered from the data, This study calls for improvement in teacher/student relations, as well as further analysis.