Minority Scholars

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Ombudsman, track program, statistics revisited (univariate multivariate)

Finally received my paper back, really does suck that I have to wait for weeks for response, changes, or alterations. I often wake-up early, stay up late, sacrifice weekends, etc to get assignments complete and moving forward. On a normal 3 month cycle, I'll have 2 submissions, then another couple of thousands of dollars to continue forward.

After my blow-up session, I received a call back from the Ombudsman. He indicated that I may be eligible for a track program (one Chair assigned to ONLY me) that would be able to speak to me multiple times per week and expedite the dissertation process. This was over 2 weeks ago. As of today, no call back, just a random email apologizing for the late response and indicating that she would be available next week (which is now this week). Very irritating and makes me feel very vulnerable. I also requested financial relief for a year, till date, no resolution, so I'll move forward.



Most of the changes required are easily implemented but I still have massive reservation of the direction of my dissertation. All I can do is keep pounding, right? One of the areas requiring some knowledge is in statistics. I am familiar with certain aspects but in now way shape or form am I a veteran. My original study used multivariate regression and then translated to univariate, now I've been recommended to revert back to multivariate. I still need to read up but as I recall, univariate regression analyses 1 IV relationship to a single DV. This is the basis of my analysis....

ie.
Career Support (CS((IV)) to Mentoring Satisfaction (MS((DV))
or
Psychosocial Support (PS((IV)) to Mentoring Satisfaction (MS((DV))

Maybe there's an assumption that MS is a compilation of CS, PS, and RM, eh, who knows, let me get to the facts and stop assuming.


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