As I was writing our latest quarterly report for the RUSH grant, I found myself laughing out loud, something that doesn't usually happen when you write government reports. The disconnect was just too funny between the ways that textbooks and government offices expect research to be done and how it really happens on the reservation. I learned in graduate school that people are supposed to be assigned to an experimental group (in our case, who receive training) and a control group (who fills out the same tests but receives no training). Everyone is supposed to be treated the exact same way, come in at the same time and leave at the same time, getting the exact same amount of training. Here is the reality - people come in when they do. Some come late. Some leave early. A few people both come late AND leave early. People assign themselves to the experimental group or the control group because if a person doesn't want to attend the training then there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Erich and I had talked a lot about the differences between what really works and how things are 'supposed' to work in conducting research and publicizing the results of that research in a way that it benefits the community. So, when was asked if we would be interested in giving a webcast on working in Indian communities, we were all set.
Yes, we can all get along, those in the field and in academia. (I even included a picture of Erich with a faculty member from UND as photographic evidence.)
In fact, rather than ordering us to do research following a diagram (like THAT'S going to happen!) the nice folks at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory recommended that we do a webcast on what we have found works and doesn't work. It will be a challenge for Erich and I to reduce all of those differences we have talked and laughed about down to an hour and a half. It will definitely be something different than their typical webcast, but I think we will all enjoy it and actually learn something.
Research and Dissemination in Indian Country: Indianonish, Email, and Other Surprises
a webcast by Dr. De Mars and Dr. Longie through the National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research will be held on December 14, 2 p.m. Central Time.
To read more about this webcast, click below
http://www.ncddr.org/webcasts/webcast9.html
Or, go to this link to register
http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/12291g2e606
It is open to the public and free.
Erich and I had talked a lot about the differences between what really works and how things are 'supposed' to work in conducting research and publicizing the results of that research in a way that it benefits the community. So, when was asked if we would be interested in giving a webcast on working in Indian communities, we were all set.
Yes, we can all get along, those in the field and in academia. (I even included a picture of Erich with a faculty member from UND as photographic evidence.)
In fact, rather than ordering us to do research following a diagram (like THAT'S going to happen!) the nice folks at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory recommended that we do a webcast on what we have found works and doesn't work. It will be a challenge for Erich and I to reduce all of those differences we have talked and laughed about down to an hour and a half. It will definitely be something different than their typical webcast, but I think we will all enjoy it and actually learn something.
Research and Dissemination in Indian Country: Indianonish, Email, and Other Surprises
a webcast by Dr. De Mars and Dr. Longie through the National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research will be held on December 14, 2 p.m. Central Time.
To read more about this webcast, click below
http://www.ncddr.org/webcasts/webcast9.html
Or, go to this link to register
http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/12291g2e606
It is open to the public and free.
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