Research Symposium

BIO

My name is Alexander Richardson, and I am a second-year student at FSU in the nursing major. I am also a first-generation student in the QUEST Scholars program. Once I graduate, I would like to become a nurse anesthetist and hopefully own a business/practice one day.

Protecting Privacy and Advancing Understanding: Deidentifying Data on Barriers and Facilitators in School Systems

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to explore a cutting-edge process called implementation science to examine how a team conducts evidence-based research, improving the ways it is implemented in real world scenarios. Implementation science is a process that allows research and its results to be incorporated in real life. In this project, we are gathering data regarding the ability of some school systems to provide resources that aid in helping educators and administrators work with students with dyslexia and other developmental learning disabilities. The team works on deidentifying focus group discussions, which will later be coded into a qualitative data analysis software called NVIVO, where the results will be stored and accessed. The team meets often to discuss tasks for each week, highlighting important documents, and identifying necessary protocols to keep the project organized and on track, allowing coding and data analysis to be done efficiently and effectively. The results of this project will compile qualitative feedback from focus groups consisting of people with different experiences and will give us an idea of how implementation science can improve resources in schools for students with dyslexia or other DLDs. The research done here will also serve as groundwork for later studies who may be interested in using these same methods and add to the growing use of implementation science in countless different settings.

Keywords: Communication, Dyslexia, Implementation