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Reflection of Learning for ED 836a Christina Scott San Diego State University

Chapter One This class was dedicated to developing our first full wor ing draft of the first chapter of our dissertation! thus Chapter "ne will #e the artifact for this reflection$ %riting for the dissertation is very different than any other acade&ic writing due to the prescri#ed order of the organi'ation of content in each chapter$ E&#ar ing on chapter one re(uired &e to develop the scope of &y dissertation and for&ulate research (uestions and &ethodology which reflect the goal of &y study$ The co&pletion of Chapter "ne reflects the successful achieve&ent of the ED 836a course student learning outcome: Draft chapter one of their dissertation$ The co&pletion of Chapter "ne also directly relates to the Ed.D Program Learning Outcomes # 9. Decisions Sciences and #7. Professional. The focus of the dissertation as a whole is original acade&ic research and data collection using designated &ethodology! which reflects the learning outco&e of Decisions Sciences$ The develop&ent of chapter one identifies the &anner in which the scientific &ethod will #e applied to the study and the theoretical fra&ewor which will #e applied to the results analysis$ %riting the first chapter of &y dissertation also strongly reflects the learning outco&e of Professional$ Creating a piece of writing which is reflective of the standards of professional research! writing! and ulti&ately pu#lication de&onstrates an understanding and a#ility to perfor& within the professional e)pectations of acade&ia$ * loo forward to continuing this with the research stage of Chapter Two$ Developing effective research (uestions and study focus without having fully e)plored the literature related to &y study! &ade it difficult to identify gaps in the research in the area * a& interested in as well as have a full perspective of the literature to draw fro& in &y introduction and pro#le&s state&ent$ This chapter provides &e with a #ase

point for going further with the research and writing! #ut * anticipate needing to alter this chapter as * go further into the literature and course wor $