Reflection #2 CODE221

Tamiria Dixon 

Dr. Martinez

CODE 221

23 September 2025

Reflection #2

Throughout the duration of this project, there are many things that I’m apprehensive of. It can be said that these apprehensive tendencies will help me become well prepared in the future. As far as behaviors, operating within normal ethics and keeping open lines of communication, have made a positive benefit to my research. Without these aspects, it would be hard for me to incorporate different perspectives regarding my research. Thus, those are things that demonstrate the effectiveness of my work, when it comes to critically curating interview questions. I can also say that I have planned out my agenda in a goal-oriented format. With that being said, I have set goals that I want to achieve by certain timeframes. Not only does this agenda hold me accountable to deadlines, but it also stands for an organized form of notetaking. Considering the concept of this research, there are also many other steps that I can take to improve my research process. It should be stated that building trust, engaging, and learning from mistakes are all aspects that come with research. Already, I have contributed to an environment that harbours open lines communication where everyone is passionate about their work. Now that I have given you a brief overview of the different concepts regarding my research, I will explain them in further detail. 

One of the main critics that I have with my work specific to our research question is interview questions. Interview questions have been the most tedious part of my work so far. I say this because it involves a lot of critical thinking about perception. Moreover, I tended to think about the questions from an interviewee’s lens. Furthermore, asking myself “how would I answer that question?” These actions helped speed the process for implication. As I curated questions, I ensured that each one was asking something different. I paid great detail to this because I’m able to get greater results by providing a diverse set of questions. Another thing that I had to consider was the order of the questions. Mainly thinking of sorting them based on category, theme and relevancy. Strategically, I was able to organize from general to more research specific. Purposely, it allows for me to ease them into the questions, without starting off with a critical thought. Ultimately, all of these mechanisms helped ensure that I had good vetted research questions to ask participants. 

Yes, it is true that curating research questions was one of most intricate tasks yet, however there are many aspects of this process that helped contribute to my research team. One of these aspects was utilizing my notes and creating an agenda. Before curating questions, I was able to gain insight from my group regarding the things that they were doing with their own research. With that, I was able to contribute my piece that is relevant to the work that they were doing by collaboration. I often took notes on articles we all annotated and the lessons that they plan to create. After gaining that knowledge I was able to create a detailed agenda that incorporates that knowledge of local subject matter experts. I found that this work is needed, when wanting to ensure that our research is credible.