Week 8: Quite an opportunity

I can’t believe it’s our last “official” week of PIRE. On the bright side, we recently received news that we will be able to continue collecting data into the fall. Thank goodness! I am so thankful to be able to continue running this study and see how much data I can...

Week 7: Running the study

This week I ran as many participants as I could get to schedule, and they all went very smoothly minus a few technical issues. I am really enjoying talking to everyone from Puerto Rico. They all have been so nice and interested in the study. We are going to begin...

Week 6: Real participants!

This week I ran my first couple participants. Everything ran super smoothly with the first one. I loved meeting both of them, they were so fun to talk to and hear about their lives in Puerto Rico. The second session also went very smoothly, with just a couple minor...

Week 5: It’s official!

Recruitment has begun! I have officially scheduled my first participant. I am so excited to run a real session with a student from Puerto Rico. Along with scheduling this session, I have contacted a few other potential participants and am just waiting to hear back....

Week 4: Already halfway!

This past week we worked out the last few kinks of our experiments. We will be ready to begin recruiting participants by the end of this week. For the next few days, we will be practicing how to recognize participants that qualify and assigning them to each of our...