Writing a literary review during this class has challenged me, it has taught me that there is much better ways to do research.  I am very glad that we had so much time to complete it because in all honesty it is quite a bit of work, especially if we are going to do it correctly, follow directions and attain a good grade.  Doing this review is helping me understand how I should approach research and what I should look for in my resources.  I think that the most difficult part of writing the literature Review was actually sitting down and converting all the information I  already collected and putting it together in a manner in which it would make sense.  This was hard for me only because when writing everyone has their own personal style, and although it might sound good to me it might not be the best form in which to present the information to our professor.  Throughout the course our professor has been nice enough that she has pretty much held our hand and walked us through the process telling us what it is she want exactly, and this has been very helpful.  Learning the process in this manner has giving me the ability to learn what may be the correct and better way to do research, and that I need to take my time to do it.  My understanding about my research has grown immensely, in the past is seemed to me as if this might just be a very vague subject that needed to be explored, but now I know that there have been many studies going on during the last 30-40 years in the area, I had just never bothered to search or consider looking into it.   I think that what I would now like to see or find is more studies done.  I think that over the years many of the researchers, psychologist and teacher have identified various factors that influence student engagement and promote learning and education and it would be wonderful to see them being applied.  I do believe it would be quite difficult, as students, teachers, parents, and a school administrators would have to agree on doing a study of this magnitude and follow through with specific directions over long periods of time in order to attain reliable result.  Well thank you very much for reading my blog and hope we all learned from this experience.