Post 4
In my last week at Beebe Hall, Prof. Hamilton and I have been looking at data from another survey of Cornell Cooperative Extension staff and their use of research. We have been working to separate the 4-H educators from this population and see what we can learn from their responses. Because this survey has many [...]
Post 3
In the past two weeks, Prof. Hamilton and I have been working on developing the survey for the 4-H educators. While I was conducting the literature review about research utilization, I made note of which studies contained the focus group guides they used to collect information. These guides, along with the initial responses from the [...]
Post 2
I spent this week preparing for the beginning stages of our focus groups and surveys. I have been working on an ongoing review on published literature on translational research and education to get a better idea on what other researchers have done. While we have not been able to find any articles on youth development [...]
Post 1
The first few weeks of my internship have been a great introduction to the field of translational research. Translational research is focused on getting the knowledge gained from scholarly research into the hands of those it is meant to help. For example, directors of youth development afterschool programs would be interested in the results of [...]