Week 8 Blog Post- Writing the Literature Review!

I enjoyed writing about my topic about whether charter school education is better than public school education. When I finally started putting the sources together I found it was pretty easy to come up with 2-3 pages of writing because the assignments were already summarized. I just had to find what I wanted from each source and include it in my literature review. I still do not know if my research question as answered because the quality of school is dependent on different variables. All different aspects could come into play like the area the school is in, the teachers, the environment that the school creates, and the students. Like one of my research studies stated, it is difficult to know if children in a charter school would do better or worse in a traditional public school because they cannot be in two places at once.

I think that I should have taken this class earlier in my education at Brandman. It is one of my last two classes and I was really lagging when it came to writing the paper. I usually do assignments weeks in advance so I have time for later assignments, but I am starting to really want to be done so I keep putting off the final assignments for both the LBSU class and my PSYU class.

I really enjoyed keeping this blog as well. It was fun to have a record of my thoughts for the different weeks. I really liked being able to read classmate’s blogs and find out about what they are researching. I feel that my research was not as complete as I would have liked it to be because there were not a lot of studies on public school education (that I had access to… many wanted money to view them). I think that this topic is okay to have holes in my research because it honestly depends on the school to be classified as good or bad. A parent who is contemplating charter education might want to go get a tour of the school and maybe sit in a couple of classes to see if they are good or not. Public school might be the easier option of the many school choices because it is convenient, but some public schools are really not the best. It depends on what the parent wants.

I really wish everyone luck in all you do. I hope that you go far in your education and have fun along the way. Thank you to everyone who read my blog throughout the last eight weeks! 

-Allison Chang