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# Capstone: Mentorship Meeting Notes




## October 27, 2020; Tuesday, 2-2:30PM 
Agenda Notes

- introductions 
- mentorship 
    - relationship structure 
    - logistics
        - Group Capstone Capacity 2 or 3 
    - expectations 
- summarize word correlation
    - topics we are hoping to pursue
- working backgrounds
    - what do we want to achieve 
- why is this important to us
    - what is our definition of success 
- narrowing down on topic 
    - emerge as we progress
        - general areas
            - more rsearch
                - identify our interest after reading more literature
    - pinpointing our topic 
        - what is it
        - and what is not 
- crime incorporation 
    - crime as it relates to education
        - hypothesis 
            - narrow, well defined 
                - framing the issue 
                    - is educational outcome contigent on the .... neighborhods
                        - perfect experiment 
                            - every thing is the same
                                - crime in different nieghborhoods
                                    - does that affect the outcomes of education
- brainstorming
    - alot of research on education from spatial
        - school perfromance and school performance 
            - bunch of reasons why some schools do better than others 
        - resource deprivated neighborhoods
            - interesting
                - look at the exceptions
                    - see if there are any existing schoools that overcome all these challenges
                        - that existing literature is conflicting
                - see what they are doing different and the factors that are allow them to thrive in environments that existing literature have shownare not reasons to be successful?  
                - Characteristics of the neighborhood. 
- education background
    - a way to study US neighborhoods
        - a better a way to understand schools outcomes and neighborhoods 
    - contact with NGOS who are interested in shaping educational outcomes
    - spatial evolution
        - how have nieghborhoods been defined 
    - understanding the different contexts spatially 
    - simply way
        - econometric models that look at school perfromances 
            - determinates of the regression model
                - the characterstics of the feeding zones students come from 
        - its not only the boundaries 
            - socioeconomic characterstics are different even though if they are in the same track 
                - bordering tracks and the different environemnts that shape student's life 
- Literature and data collection
    - Master's level
        - learning how to do research
            - didn't really matter about the topic
                - but learn the craft of doing research
        - capstone
            - students learning how to do research
                - research design
                - research question 
    - reading literature
        - example
            - educational outcomes in New york
                - see if we can replicate in California 
        - think about if we can adopt to and see if we can applied in local 
    - reading literature 
        - coming across examples
    - blue sky 
        - brainstorming
            - what do we think are interesting questions
        - hard to do both at the same time 
            - something we own and things we care about 
    - shifting between these two persepctives 
        - able to find the intersection and have supporting literature 
        - think about bigger questions 
- replicating a well done model 
- qualitative analysis 
    - opinion
        - challenging with covid restrictions 
            - hard to do extension qualitative research 
- next meetings
    - have specific targets we want to accomplish each meeting 

