In retrospect, the author would have done a few things differently while conducting her research. First, the classes would be separated from the beginning of the year and would continue throughout the duration of the academic year. In the author’s research, she noticed her students going through a transition time when leaving her classroom and entering her teaching partner’s classroom. The boys coming into her
classroom also went through a transition period. The author’s students had gotten used to her teaching methods and style, and it appeared, to the author, that the students needed an adjustment period in order to get used to the new teacher and her style. This could have affected the results of the author’s study, since the study was conducted over a brief period of time. Conducting the study over an entire academic year would reduce the effects any adjusting periods may have had on the results of the research.