Thursday, January 21, 2010
Journal #2
I've narrowed down my search for the research paper to two topics. I'm not sure if either of these are good things to try to research but I'm thinking of giving it a shot. My first one i thought of was the differences between high school sports and Division 1 sports. I want to know how much of a jump, if any, it is for athletes here at Ball State, or at any Division 1 school for that matter. One of my good friends is on the football team here and i think I'd be interesting to interview him about what practices are really like. I wonder how different they are from high school. My second i was thinking of doing is the differences in students here at Ball State that came from a large high school, and ones you came from small ones. Whether the adjustment for students already in a large school made it easier to adjust to such a big campus. At least for me, coming from a smaller school it was a big adjustment, I'd interview other students who went to a school like mine and see if it was the same for them. I have other questions i plan on asking in my interviews along with the ones i expressed here.
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You won't have time to interview a lot of students, possibly one or two. You might be able to do a simple survey, though. Start with what has been written on this topic by searching College Students, Campus Life, First Year College Student, Adjustment to College, or any other terms you can think of. I'm sure the topic has been written about before in some way.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't clear on what research question you were getting at with the football idea.