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Exploring Doctoral Students’ Understandings of Researcher Identity and Agency Through the Draw-a-Researcher Test (Poster 7)
Fri, April 12, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall AiPresentation URL: https://aera24-aera.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=0B-E1-0D-79-58-1E-8C-25-34-D9-D9-96-76-37-63-C9
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore doctoral students’ understandings of researcher identity and agency as measured by the Draw-a-Researcher Test (DART) As such, the present study aimed to understand how education and social science doctoral students view the work of researchers and also explored the possible influence of a qualitative methods research course on the students’ researcher identity. The central research question guiding the present study is: In what ways, if any, do doctoral students locate identity and agency within their mental models of research and researcher practices? Pre- and post-test findings indicate that, over the 16-week qualitative research course, doctoral students’ views of researcher agency evolved allowing for more reflexive and creative researcher identities to take shape.