Mentoring Emerging Researchers on Developing Conceptual Framework for Scholarly Inquiry

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Abstract

This mentoring session builds on feedback from two consecutive years of presenting on conceptual framework development at AERA conferences, where we presented a symposium followed by a workshop on understanding the conceptual and theoretical framework as an evolving process. The feedback from these sessions prompted the need for a one-on-one mentoring session designed to provide participants—graduate students and early-career scholars—with a deeper understanding of the iterative process of developing conceptual frameworks to guide their research and provide them with grounded knowledge of their practical
application of the process. During the mentoring session, mentors will clarify the function and significance of theoretical and conceptual frameworks within educational research and respond to mentees' questions. The mentors have expertise from having gone through the processes themselves; hence, their ability to guide participants through step-by-step strategies for synthesizing disciplinary knowledge based on research interests. While the session is primarily tailored for emerging scholars, it may meet the needs of other researchers who have previously misidentified or misapplied theoretical and conceptual frameworks in their investigations.

Author

• Justina Ogodo, Baylor University