Instructions: Each reply must be no more than 150 words.
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Student #1 AD
I am still researching and working on how to further narrow down my topic, but I know that I want to study tutoring and effects it can have on test anxiety. This was my original topic: “The effect of one-on-one tutoring on test anxiety in the classroom.” Therefore, the two sources that I want to definitely use in my literature review are on this general subject. I will find other resources later that will help as I narrow down my topic.
First is the article, “Peer Tutoring Effects on Students’ Mathematics Anxiety: A Middle School Experience” by Lidon Moliner and Francisco Alegre. This resource is invaluable because of the insight it gives into what math anxiety looks like. This math anxiety is normally found when it is time to be tested, which becomes test anxiety. Moliner and Alegre give a detailed explanation of their study, and their results confirm that peer tutoring does, in fact, help ease test anxiety (Moliner & Alegre, 2020).
The second article is “From a perspective on foreign language learning anxiety to develop an affective tutoring system” by Hao-Chiang Koong Lin, Ching-Ju Chao, and Tsu-Ching Huang. This article is an excellent resource that really drives home the why of tutoring. The why of tutoring is so that students truly learn well, and in turn are able to test well. This learning normally happens best when a student is comfortable, like in one-on-one tutoring, and this is especially true when it pertains to foreign language learning (Lin et al., 2015). This resource adds a unique perspective to easing anxiety with tutoring.
Works Cited
Lin, Hao-Chiang Koong, Ching-Ju Chao, & Tsu-Ching Huang. (2015). From a perspective on foreign language learning anxiety to develop an affective tutoring system. Educational Technology Research and Development, 63(5), 727-747.
Moliner, Lidon & Francisco Alegre. (2020). Peer Tutoring Effects on Students’ Mathematics Anxiety: A Middle School Experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01610/full#h4.
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Theological importance in the selection of worship music is important but will not be a main point of my research proposal thesis. This and other similarities to my own thesis are helpful in establishing my specific research question. Klopper, in his journal article entitled Liturgical Music: Worship or War? Talks about how Liturgical worship music can and should have variety in order to establish some new standard. He also talks about how generally speaking music is important to worship itself. (Kloppers, 1995) While I agree with these points as well, my emphasis will be more on how a particular style of worship music effects a senior’s ability to worship based on their experiences. I will take a more specific look into how music sung during the time period when you experienced salvation is relevant to your worship. How do these memories for senior citizens are related and help them to truly worship?
Johnson in his journal article entitled Heads Up: Tracing the battle lines in the worship wars talks about other ideas of pattern behavior and ritual. These are interwoven together into more of a tradition or as is suggested more of a right that someone has as it pertains to the way they worship. He talks about the ritual in a way that implies that it might not be about true worship at all. In addition He deals with the topic of having knowledge of God’s salvation versus the act of experiencing that salvation. (Johnson, 2004) While I also am interested in the traditional and ritual aspect of musical worship and the idea of knowledge versus experience, my research will focus in on more of a triggered experience. What part does a particular style of music, whatever that style may be, have on the senior citizens ability to worship? What does hearing that particular song or songs trigger in their memory that helps them achieve true thankfulness and worship of God their savior?
References
Johnson, T. E. (2004). Heads up: tracing the battle lines in the worship wars. Liturgy, 19(4), 33–38.
Kloppers, E. (1997). Liturgical music: Worship or war? Hervormde Teologiese Studies, 53, 172–184.
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