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Below is a re-typed version of Katrina Parker’s research project evaluation.

Research Evaluation Ms Douglas was also a valuable resource. It
Working with a partner during the research was interesting to find out how the wharenui was
assignment has had its advantages and established and all the work, time and effort that we
disadvantages. did not before appreciate.
You are able to share others opinions to come Next time I think I will take notes on an
up with new ideas and research processes, and you interview instead of recording them and then
can also encourage each other and together see the writing them out as this was too time-consuming.
progress you make. Overall this assignment has been very
The disadvantage of working with a partner is enjoyable, even though it has taken a lot of time. It
that you lose a lot of independence and it’s hard to is good to see the final product. All our hard work,
get together at a time which would suit us both. time and effort was worth it.
When taking on a topic such as ours we didn’t I was beginning to wonder sometimes if
realise so much work was involved. I think we working with a partner has given me patients (sic),
made our research assignments too widely based. and to accept another person’s opinion. Also that I
We should of scaled it down slightly so not as much found our teamwork is the answer if you want to
time was needed. make any progress.
There were so many more people we would of I learnt a lot of new things, past & present,
contacted, interviewed and surveyed if we had of about Ngaruawahia High School that have been a
had more time. I found that the research process great benefit to me.
was more consuming than actually collating all the I’ve learnt to do things different ways next
information and presenting on paper. time, new research processes other than from books,
I found interviewing Mr Cranshaw and Mr but to use other resources.
Murphy a valuable resource, and we received a lot I’d just like to say that all our hard work has been
of valuable and relevant information on the changes worth it, as you can now see.
that have been made over the years and how our
school has benefitted and developed.