Snow Days = Some Progress
Thanks to Old Man Winter, I have had a couple of days to feel like I'm getting caught up...a little. I spent some time this weekend finishing the coding and tallying of the student work. I did total tallies for each category and then decided I wanted to see grade level specific data. I think you would call this step "grounded theory" (Charmaz, 2006). As, I stated in a previous post, I also added in the "Graphic Organizer" category. I will continue to add to this information as I get student work. Due to technical difficulties, I cannot get the photo of the data so far posted. It will be part of my next post later in the week that will include all of my coding of examples as well as interviews and the proposed theories at this time.
This morning, I spent about an hour and a half just scribing the interviews I conducted in February. Whew! That is a JOB! I plan to spend this evening coding those. I'm excited to see what I find.
Resource: Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks: Sage. (42-71).
I think this time you all may have gotten more snow than we did. The one benefit of snow days these days is it gives us a chance to get caught up on the research process. I look forward to hearing about your proposed theories of the data! I understand the length of time it takes to transcribe an interview. I spent close to two hours transcribing the interviews I conducted. I think you will learn a lot by coding the interviews. Coding has allowed me to pick up on things that I would have never picked up on without going through the coding process.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm right there with you. Scribing the interviews is quite a task, but you really do get some great information from them. I'm interested to see your coding pictures, especially the tallying part :)
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