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Student Research Journal
- Volume-1, 1994
- Volume-2, 1995
- Volume-3, 1996
- Volume-4, 1997
- Volume-5, 1998
- Volume-6, 1999
- Volume-7, 2000
- Volume-8, 2001
- Volume-9, 2002
- Volume-10, 2003
- Volume-11, 2004
- Volume-12,2005
- Volume-13,2006
- Volume 14, 2007
- About Student Research
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About Student Research At CSU, East Bay
Members of our profession have argued over the years that
the mainstay of clinical training is the creation of the clinician-scientist.
The clinician-scientist is one who has acquired an appreciation
of the scientific method; the ability  to appraise critically the body of research
which leads ultimately to clinical intervention. Increasing requirements
for clinical accountability demand heightened rigor in documenting
the need for, and the results of clinical intervention. The clinician
who has experience in conducting and evaluating research is ahead
in this endeavor.
The Master's thesis has been the traditional means of demonstrating
competence as clinician-scientist. In recent years Master's theses
have increasingly lost favor because of the need for an enormous
commitment of faculty time and effort during an era of diminishing
faculty resources.
Graduate programs in communicative sciences and disorders
typically require graduate students to complete a course in research
methodology. As Master's theses become a less frequent option,
such courses are emerging as a medium for providing future clinicians
with a research experience. In our Research Methods course, we
seek to enliven the experience by requiring all graduate students
to plan and execute an original, experimental (not library) research
project as part of the course requirements. As a further incentive,
we publish papers chosen competitively from the 20 or so research
projects completed for the course each year in our Student Research
Journal. Each year two to three of the selected papers are sponsored
for student poster  sessions
at the Annual Convention of the American Speech -Language-Hearing
Association.
Each of the research projects abstracted here was conceived,
planned, executed, analyzed, and written in the course of an
eleven week academic quarter. Consequently, most of these studies
are preliminary or pilot in nature. All volumes included in these
files are cataloged by the CSU, East Bay Library, and individual
papers may be ordered through inter-library loan. Ordering information
is included at the end of each Volume.
ASHA 1999 presentation:
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