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(For the instructor in H.S.) Do you feel that what you teach your students prepares their writing skills for their future in college, or do they just prepare them for a standardized state exam? and if so how?
ReplyDelete♥Abigail Castro
I can relate my topic with your question, because we both talk about standardized tests. I feel like in high school, teachers focus more on teaching us for a test than self-improvement. I do think that what we do in English in high school serves as the training wheels to our English course in college. We were given a foundation, but didn't really learn much besides the basics, so when we go to college we know about the basic rules to reading and writing but haven't analyzed or gone further than the content.
DeleteThis is a really good question, and i can clearly understand your construct about how standardized tests don't prepare high school students for college. A way to maybe improve your question would be to expand the topic to not only writing but reading as well because they both connect with each other, and so for later on for your project you have more to research on. But like i said, over all i liked and can relate to your question because we have the similar topics, and am curious to find out what you do with it for the later stages. :)
DeleteConsider how this question will require you to visit/talk to high school teachers. Are you prepared to do so, Abigail? I would suggest you keep your research closer to campus, like this: Do current UTRGV freshman feel prepared for the rigors of college? If not, why do they feel unprepared, who do they blame, and what are they doing to acclimate to this new environment? If yes, what was done in high school to prepare them for college?
DeleteAs much as you want the whole team to work together, in order to achieve victories every player has to bring their own strength to the field, following everything the coach would say limits a player's creativity, just as being taught a set way for standardized tests limits self-improvement, do you believe that following a certain style to train or learn, restricts one from reaching full performance? If so, how?
ReplyDelete- Kelzy Jepsen
You missed the workshop, so the question is a bit convoluted. Let's refine this by touching on both sports and academics, like this: What strategies do players on the UTRGV women's soccer team employ in order to balance the rigors of academic and sport performance?
DeleteDoes gender play a role when it comes to succeeding in the nursing field, or is nursing difficult for both male and female students?
ReplyDelete-Vanessa Muniz
I like how you compare genders about their ability to perform a task better than one. Woman are stereotyped to be better in the nursing field than men, but there are many male doctors. In my opinion, gender doesn’t play an important role in career and education. What really matters is the motivation one has to accomplish anything. For the question to sound smoother, I believe you should replace the comma with a question mark and start the next sentence with the word after the comma.
DeleteLet's refine your awesome question, Vanessa: What are the similarities/differences between male and female nursing students at UTRGV? Which group is more successful/less successful, and why? Which group is more motivated/less motivated to succeed, and why?
DeleteWhat do students in the Nursing major think about the Nursing program here at UTRGV?
ReplyDelete-Cristal Vazquez
Let's refine your awesome question, Cristal. Among enrolled and prospective students, what are the most popular perceptions of the Nursing program at UTRGV? How/why is this a good/bad program, and what differentiates it from other programs within our region? According to these same students, what factors (cost, geography, etc.) play a role in choosing/not choosing this program?
DeleteWhat is considered good writing? How does a good writing standard affect how students write at a high school level and how does it affect them when introduced to writing at a college level?
ReplyDelete-Saul Mendoza
I think that this is a good question because everyone can have a different view point in what they consider good writing. I think that good writing is when an author or anyone in general get their point across. I think that writing in high school is more specific and in college it is more broad. In high school a student might feel that their writing is good but in college they might feel that they are not good because writing is different and they can be confused.
Delete-Yesenia Vallejo
Let's refine your awesome question, Saul: What strategies should UTRGV freshman adopt/develop in order to become effective college writers?
DeleteWould your perspective of the author change if you knew that their books had grammatical errors?
ReplyDelete-Jesús Zamudio
What do you mean by the perspective of the author? Do you mean perspective as in their writing ability or them as a person? Can you try to rewrite the question so you can be more a bit more specific, so people can better understand what you are trying to ask.
Delete-Rafael Saenz
I like this question because I think as students we often believe that authors are perfect, but in reality they too make mistakes sometimes. I think this question is good as is, however, it may be good to mention a specific book and author. This question is similar to mine in that we are both focusing on books and how authors go about writing them.
Delete-Teresa Zamora
I like this question because it has a different perspective. I like how you took one thing and considered another. Really interesting and makes you sit and think about it.
Delete-KC Ryan
Let's refine your awesome question, Jesus: How/why do UTRGV students perceive grammatical errors in their own writing? Why is grammar important/unimportant to this group, and what strategies do they use/not use to develop their grammatical skills?
DeleteDo authors have specific strategies for writing books/novels?
ReplyDelete-Teresa Zamora
I like this question because it is asking about how famous writers use strategies,if any, to write a text. While doing this research you might find some strategies that could be helpful to you or other students when writing a text. I really would like to see the results from this question because it might give me some new strategies to help me in writing when I get stuck.
Delete-Vanessa Muniz
Let's refine your awesome question, Teresa. What process, if any, do authors employ in the composition of novels? What are the names of some of the most successful novelists, what is significant about their novels, and what do they have to say about their creative process? What can student writers learn from the writing processes of these individuals to help them become better writers themselves?
DeleteWhat role, if any, does gender play on stress? Do you believe one gender is better at handling situations under pressure, or does everyone have the same reaction towards a stressful situation?
ReplyDelete~ Teresa Villarreal
I like the question due the topic it is elaborated from. Which is stress something that every college student goes through at least once in their college years. One way you can improve the question is adding or gathering statistics on students that go through stress and get a comparison between the male and female students. This question differs from mine due its asking for a students experience and not his/her opinion on the matter.
Delete-Rolando Barboza
Let's refine your awesome question, Teresa: How/why do male and female UTRGV students deal with academic stress? What are the most popular forms of academic stress among these groups? Which group is most successful/least successful at relieving this stress, and why? What strategies should one/both groups adopt to relieve academic stress?
DeleteHow does being considered a good or bad student affect an individual mentally and physically? Also can these affects be positive, or negative, or both?
ReplyDelete-Rafael Saenz
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DeleteI like this question but i consider it could be better. Maybe try to fuse both questions and be more specific and detailed. Also I'm having trouble to identify your construct. -Francisco Hernandez Jr
DeleteI like this question because it shows that placing an individual into one of the two categories can affect how they perceive and react to situations both inside and outside the academic world. Maybe you could add if being seen as a good student or bad student will have long term effects on their mentality/physicality in the work place or even in their personal lives. This question is kind of like mine in the sense that once an individual is seen as good or bad, a type of stress is placed on them to either maintain that image of being a good student or try to break free from that bad student mold that they're stuck in.
Delete~ Teresa Villarreal
I like this question because it goes beyond the way an individual thinks and shows how the person reacts to the label. I think you should get rid of the second question.
Delete-Frank Castorena
Let's refine your awesome question, Rafael: At UTRGV, how/why is it important/unimportant for students to be labeled "good" or "bad" students? What is the impact of these labels on UTRGV students, and where do these labels come from? Specifically, what are the characteristics of good and bad students, and what do UTRGV students know about these definitions?
DeleteDo learning styles play an important role in sports? If so, what is the best way to learn how to play a sport? Also, when are you considered to be a good athlete/coach?
ReplyDelete-Marcelo Puente
I like this question because it relates learning styles with the teaching of sports. Also, I feel that the last question is not really necessary, maybe try to rewrite the question by mixing the two first questions.
Delete-Francisco Hernandez Jr
Let's refine your awesome question, Marcelo: How/why is academic learning similar/different to sports learning? What do athletes and/or academics have to say about these similarities/differences. If different, what are some of the elements one group can learn from the other?
DeleteDo college seniors engage more in critical reading than college freshmen?
ReplyDelete-Francisco Hernandez Jr
I like this question because it questions if seniors, a more experienced group of students, apply critical reading more than us freshmen. Maybe you could go further by asking how critical reading progresses throughout college, which could apply some focus to all the grade levels, and not just freshmen and seniors.
Delete-Kenneth Ledezma
Consider how your interest in high school will require you to talk/visit with hs seniors. Are you willing to do so, Francisco? My suggestion would be to conduct your research on campus, like this: How/why is critical thinking important to the success of freshmen at UTRGV? What are the advantages/disadvantages of this skill for college freshmen? What does this group know about critical thinking and its importance in the college setting? What are some of the key strategies UTRGV freshmen should adopt in order to develop into successful critical thinkers?
DeleteDo students actually learn from feedback given by others? What is the percentage from learning and not learning from feedback?
ReplyDelete-Jacqueline Martinez
I like this question because you included the "percentage" part in it. I feel like this question is good because it doesn't only ask a yes or no, but it is asking for a specific number to it. There are many students who do learn from feedback, and there is some that ignore it and just keep what they think is right and don't change anything.
Delete-Jackelinne Salinas
Cool exploration, Jacqueline. Let's refine your awesome question: At UTRGV, what perceptions do students have about the feedback process? What is the feedback process and why is it significant? Is feedback from teachers more impactful/less impactful than feedback from fellow classmates? What are the advantages/disadvantages of these two types of feedback, and which do UTRGV students prefer?
DeleteAre there certain methods of studying that can help you become an accountant?
ReplyDelete-Yesenia Vallejo
Let's refine your awesome question, Yesenia: How/why/where do accounting majors study at UTRGV? How effective/ineffective are these current study strategies, and why? What specific study strategies should these majors develop in order to be successful?
DeleteIs understanding the material more efficient than memorizing?
ReplyDelete-Brian Hernandez
Well it all depends on the learning style that makes a student feel more comfortable and confident. I believe that understanding the material is more efficient because students are more well-prepared when they have to take quizzes/tests, especially long ones. Also, its going to help them in the short and long run within related classes and majors. On the other hand, I've seen many students who do perfectly fine in classes by just memorizing the material but unfortunately not all of us have that amazing skill. I think that memorizing just helps students learn the material, not understand it.
Delete-Marcelo Puente
Let's refine your awesome question, Brian: What are the differences between learning and memorizing? What do UTRGV students know about these two learning styles and how are they being put into practice? At UTRGV, which of these learning styles is most effective/less effective, and why?
DeleteDo you judge good/bad writing based on personal opinion or biased opinion?
ReplyDelete-Frank Castorena
I like this question because I think that people usually judge writing based on what the public has to say about it, even if some of the people have never gotten the chance to read it themselves.
Delete-Brian Hernandez
Let's refine your awesome question, Frank: Among UTRGV students, what is considered "good" and "bad" writing? Specifically, what do students do to compose "good" writing? What do they do avoid "bad" writing"? What is significant about these opinions at UTRGV, and what can students take away from this conversation?
DeleteDoes procrastination affect an engineers thinking/creative process?
ReplyDelete-Kenneth Ledezma
I like this question because you could say procrastinating makes you thing faster and better because ur being forced to focus 100% on your work because theres no time to slack off but in th eother hand if you dont procrastinate you give your brain time to absorb all the information and have time to make an idea. I think it would really help you if you talked with the teachers in the engineering building to see if they procrastinated or not and why.
Delete-Cesar Pena
Let's refine your awesome question, Kenneth: How/why/where do UTRGV engineering students procrastinate? What do these students know/not know about procrastination? If creativity is so crucial to an engineer's success, what is the impact of procrastination on this important characteristic? What should these students do to avoid slipping into procrastination in order to achieve success in the field?
DeleteDoes procrastination affect you as an educator, does it affect the children you will teach?
ReplyDelete-Jackelinne Salinas
I like this question because I can relate to this question. Instead of, putting "children" why not put "students" ? ..,will it affect the students you will teach and why?
Delete-Jacqueline Martinez
Let's refine your awesome question, Jackelinne: How/why/where do education majors at UTRGV procrastinate? Do males procrastinate more/less than females in this major? What should these students do to avoid slipping into procrastination and achieve success in the field?
DeleteThroughout UTRGV, are there any study spots.? Where are the best spots students prefer to study?
ReplyDelete- KC Ryan
Let's refine your awesome question, KC: What are the most/least popular study spaces at UTRGV? How/why do students gravitate/avoid each of these spaces? Who uses these spaces most/least: male or female students? What types of studying occurs in these spaces (group study, single study, etc.) and why do students like/dislike these spaces? Does UTRGV have enough adequate study spaces? If so, where are these located and why? If not, what should UTRGV do to accommodate students better?
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