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Question, Discover, Apply, Disseminate: My Journey From Honors Student To Educator, Heather Ness-Maddox
Question, Discover, Apply, Disseminate: My Journey From Honors Student To Educator, Heather Ness-Maddox
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive
As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (2022) collection of essays about the value of honors to its graduates (1967–2019), the author reflects on the personal and professional impacts of the honors experience.
My first honors course was Introduction to Psychology. I begrudgingly enrolled to fill an area. In high school, my psychology course was boring, but the honors course environment allowed me to read and critique research studies, analyzing the methods, the findings, the meaning behind the research. In high school I felt confident psychology would not be my major, but after the honors course I felt a …