GS4 Student Scholars Symposium

A research team of 3 faculty and 5 undergraduate researchers, conducted a scoping review on Preservice Teachers conference attendance and its effect on professional development. In order to identify how much information is available on this topic, a scoping review was performed. According to Scheinfeld (2024), scoping reviews include 6 steps consisting of defining a clear research objective and questions that contribute to it: by using specific words and topics, finding 3 databases that are cohesive with the research topic or questions, uploading the articles that come up from different key terms into a citation management platform and use a screening tool or a review platform to review articles, extract useful information and eliminating off topic articles, and finally present findings. After searching key terms in our specific topic, we removed articles that were duplicated or not related. This helped to reduce the amount of articles to screen in our scoping review. Reflecting on this process, we discovered that each database defines key terms differently. We also noticed that working together in a group is a crucial part of this process, because it allows us to identify key terms, and discuss amongst each other on whether the terms fit the discussed topic.