Final Project Structure
Remember: These projects are primarily research projects. The interventions are a nice way to end the semester and can sometimes be useful to the community, but the main focus is for the students to practice collecting and analyzing data from a community.
New Ideas for This Semester:
--To increase resources for literature reviews, students can use the Data Mgmt and Statisical Analysis Center (DAMASAC)
--Ajaan Bandit started it
--Can search Thai data (in English) to get secondary sources.
--From hospitals, municipalities, everywhere!
--A pool of data from all of Thailand:
--Use this data to develop their research projects.
--Increase content on how to write a good paper (hypotheses/objectives, conceptual framework, etc)
--New Format for PHFP Workshops:
--All the research tools must be completed prior to meetings with Ajaan Toon
--Meet as one big group for 10-15 min → break into small groups
--Have 1-2 P’Facs there
--Report their plans and their schedule for data collect.
--Lecture 6 (Intervention Proposals to the community) on a Saturday for gathering villagers to give feedback on intervention ideas.
--Increase Monitoring & Evaluation content! Students should at least monitor how their interventions went (with small surveys, small group feedback, pre- and post-testing, etc.)
--Students can develop a pretest before their intervention of behaviors or knowledge
--After the intervention they have to go back and see the effects of what they did
--ex/ one day of education → 1-2 days break → go back and evaluations the effects.
***SPSS and excel will be used for course 2 & 3***
The following progression is typical in working from a research proposal to final project:
1. The Setup: Collect Data in CPH (2nd) Course -->Last 2 lectures of CPH: Review data collected, pick major topics, do priority and agenda setting --> Divide into small groups --> review findings with community members
2. Research Proposal: Workshop 1 on proposals/objectives --> students write Research Proposals --> Research Proposal Presentation
3. Research: Methods/instruments developed --> Data gathering--> Data Analysis --> Workshop 2: Research presentation --> priority and agenda setting for interventions --> consultation with communities about intervention ideas --> intervention determination
4. Project: Write Intervention Proposal and do Intervention Proposal Presentation --> Intervention --> Evaluation of effectiveness of intervention --> Presentation --> Write Research Paper about the entire project.
New Ideas for This Semester:
--To increase resources for literature reviews, students can use the Data Mgmt and Statisical Analysis Center (DAMASAC)
--Ajaan Bandit started it
--Can search Thai data (in English) to get secondary sources.
--From hospitals, municipalities, everywhere!
--A pool of data from all of Thailand:
--Use this data to develop their research projects.
--Increase content on how to write a good paper (hypotheses/objectives, conceptual framework, etc)
--New Format for PHFP Workshops:
--All the research tools must be completed prior to meetings with Ajaan Toon
--Meet as one big group for 10-15 min → break into small groups
--Have 1-2 P’Facs there
--Report their plans and their schedule for data collect.
--Lecture 6 (Intervention Proposals to the community) on a Saturday for gathering villagers to give feedback on intervention ideas.
--Increase Monitoring & Evaluation content! Students should at least monitor how their interventions went (with small surveys, small group feedback, pre- and post-testing, etc.)
--Students can develop a pretest before their intervention of behaviors or knowledge
--After the intervention they have to go back and see the effects of what they did
--ex/ one day of education → 1-2 days break → go back and evaluations the effects.
***SPSS and excel will be used for course 2 & 3***
The following progression is typical in working from a research proposal to final project:
1. The Setup: Collect Data in CPH (2nd) Course -->Last 2 lectures of CPH: Review data collected, pick major topics, do priority and agenda setting --> Divide into small groups --> review findings with community members
2. Research Proposal: Workshop 1 on proposals/objectives --> students write Research Proposals --> Research Proposal Presentation
3. Research: Methods/instruments developed --> Data gathering--> Data Analysis --> Workshop 2: Research presentation --> priority and agenda setting for interventions --> consultation with communities about intervention ideas --> intervention determination
4. Project: Write Intervention Proposal and do Intervention Proposal Presentation --> Intervention --> Evaluation of effectiveness of intervention --> Presentation --> Write Research Paper about the entire project.