the sixty-ninth episode of ventriloquy is one which i have been working towards for many years - it brings you a recording of the oral defence of my doctoral thesis in adolescent spatial cognition, here at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
by His grace alone, the defence was successful and my thesis was accepted in full, without amendments being necessary.
i would like to thank the following people, who comprised the members of the panel today:
Professor David Hogan, Dean, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP), National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University
Professor S Gopinathan, Vice Dean (Policy), CRPP
Associate Professor Tan Seng Chee, Deputy Head, Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group (LST), NIE
Associate Professor Michael Jacobson, LST (my Chief Examiner)
Associate Professor Augustine Tan, Associate Dean, Academic Research, Graduate Programmes and Research Office, NIE
i would also like to thank my supervisor Professor Allan Luke for his many critical insights.
my gratitude also goes to my two research assistants - Teo Jie Hua and Jason Wang, as well as to Low Hock Siang for helping me this morning.
with a research endeavour of this magnitude, there are many others whose contributions were crucial. i acknowledge them in the wiki - voxpopuli - which is crafted around the thesis.
because of its duration, i have split the episode into two. this first part is 29.6 MB in size and 46 minutes in duration. it is the recording of my presentation to the panel.
Show notes:
- Introduction
- Significance of study
- Theoretical framework
- Research questions
- Related work by others
- Methodology
- Scope, limitations and critique
- About the research subjects
- Types of data collected
- Analysis of results
- Contributions
