Pendidikan Khas

I have completed my comprehensive exam and I am in the midst of getting my dissertation proposal ready.

My dissertation will be on the use of a video-based intervention to teach job skills to adults/youths with developmental disabilities working in community settings. I am rather psyched with this topic. I like it because the video part of the intervention allows me some room for creativity. The rest of the dissertation research, however, is one tightly controlled scientific process, which can be very dry and unexciting.

I am also writing up my qualifying project (QP) for publication. Even though I’ve passed the qualifying project many semesters ago, it never seems to get done.  I’ve written two versions of the Introduction: one when I initially proposed the QP, another when I defended the QP. Now I have to write a third version for publication. I’ve also analyzed and reanalyzed the data multiple times. And depending of the final data analysis, I would have to rewrite the Methods section again.

I am sick of still working on the QP, but I have to persevere on. It’s important to be a first author of a journal article: good for the CV. But still, I’m so sick of it.

With all these urgent and important documents to write and rewrite, I’ve somewhat lost my motivation to update this blog consistently. But I’ll try my best.