Though you may not be surprised since I mentioned this fear in the initial proposal, I recently decided to shift my research topic and focus in on something a bit different. After researching a few articles on the Common Core Standards, I did not feel any real interest or attraction to the topic. I still wanted to choose a topic that could be of some value to have researched in my field and to have to add to my portfolio later, but the Standards were not doing that for me. I have really enjoyed researching my new topic on the assessment and evaluation of student performance in special education because it is a topic that has had a lot of recent discussion and attention. With the reconstruction of many aspects of the educational system, the discipline of special education has had much attention and research driven changes. I have found a lot of cutting-edge and current research of the matter and a lot of influence in the topic by a lot of new voices in the area of education. I hope to continue my research and focus on the state of Ohio specifically, and try to steer away from making national generalizations. Because I recently decided to steer my topic in this other direction, I still have a lot of research to do and catch up on. I spent the last few days making connections between the five or six documents I really zoomed in on, but I now have the time to explore how these articles and books relate and comment on one another, and also how they are based on research and theories established in the past 10 or so years. Overall, I feel good about where I am at in my research and writing process, and unlike before I am interested in what I have been reading about assessment in special education which I hope will be translated into an interesting final paper.
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