Mood:
irritatedNow Playing: Meaningless Kiss (Hugh Grant)
Topic: Data Collection
So, on Thursday and Friday decided to test out the remote observation outside of the OU's firewall with Ritchie ... that is when large amount of problems occurred!!!
First of all, MSN can't work on the wireless - i.e. the voice/video conversation and application sharing... Skype could work ... with application sharing. However, although I can send video ... I can't receive any ... which makes it really frustrating.
Not the mention the frustration of not getting any students to participate. I've decided to see whether I can use some of Amalia's students. Haven't asked her as yet though.
I'm still deciding on how to choose students ... I mean there should be some criteria in making sure that students can be compared sufficiently across, shouldn't I?
Well, if things fail ... I just might have to take the RAM I have in this computer and install in in my laptop and then use it from home - well it will definitely work from home.
I also ran the trial with Ritch ... unfortunately it seems as if the video didn't record!! I got his voice conversation though - which is good. He was doing some interesting stuff with the glass-box as he did a lot of exploration and it was interested that although he seemed to be getting towards the answer in some cases, he then turn tail and came to a completely different decision ... don't quite know why. Obviously is the understanding and was wondering what the strategies involved in the learning - I mean I've got to think about the qualitative data analysis - is there particular strategies that students use when using different software and whether this can be profiled - or is this the nature of the student?
How can you profile the nature of the student? I don't want to ask them to fill in an ASI ... but that might be interesting won't it? Probably if I can find 10 question ASI. I think there is a 20 question ASI I used. Hmmm ... gonna look that up ... would that be too much for the student to do? I think I got a 20 question Biggs approach to mathematics questionnaire. Or will that be alright if I'm paying them??
