Finaaaaaaally!

It was like a big big job! I unintentionally refused to meet Dr. Bill McBride, simply because I think he is not interested what Im doing. Last time I met him was long time ago last year. I asked him for a meeting, but did not answer at all. I tried to see him in his office, no luck. Till today, I thought no more. Its the time. I walked to his office and he said he can give me just a few minutes. After he arranged his plan with his secretary, then it was my time.
I made it short and explained about the application and he agreed to do it during the weekend!!! He said I can get the forms from his secretary.
I think it might take a long time till I get the signed form, but it is a big achievement for me to even face Dr. McBride.
I think I need to push!
I feel release!!!!!!

Fantastic Friday!

Its Friday and since this week I started writing and I tried to write as I read. Although, I could just write only one page, Im happy as I feel I had progress.

Today:

• Continue writing
• Library
• Bill McBride

I make it! :)

Ethics is completed!

Ethics application is completed today! I need to see Bill McBride and send the application for
1) Peer Review committee
2) Head of School

And then the upload the signed documents and then it is completely finished.

Keep calm!

Its Monday and Im going to try my best to make my week. Here is plan:

Content Analysis
Coding with Elena
Ethics Application
Meeting Mill McBride

Be relax Homa! Calm down! Doing study under stress and pressure does not work. Be calm. Make a plan and go further step by step...

Meeting!

I had a meeting on Tuesday at 1:15 with both Alyson & Elena.

Elena's comments:

She basically needed more explanation for analysis part, the one which I linked my study to theory. She did not say anything whether it is a useful theory or not... 

(That is why I need to see Alyson. Supposed I did more elaboration and at the end we realised its not a suitable one. Then what will happen? Exactly like the Theory of Change. She did not say any comments and asked me to do more and at the end Alyson said it does not match perfectly).

Again, as usual she started to talk about her project with Alyson. It is very annoying as I feel that she does not care about my presence there. It is not one time, or two times, it happens all the time when we have group meeting. I think she abuses my time. 

Allyson's comments:

She asked me about the disagreement between the rater. She asked me why and what was the reason of disagreement. I think she believed that because this sort of content is not so complicated, then there should not be this much disagreement. She believed that the document I am working with is a highly formal document and it is not very complicated.She asked me to check what was the reason behind the disagreement. Elena was happy to sit together and do the coding again. Im sick of this process...

She also criticised my reference that Cohen is not a professional one. She said that Creswell is not bad, but Saldana is the best (it is just focused on coding).

She also suggested me to read about content analysis. She also talked about generic terms for coding: co-coding category, fine grain category...

She suggested that while Im writing I need to bring some cotation to prove my explanation. 

She also suggested to talk to Terry Lovat.

She said that I must write 2,3 pages everyday. If I do not know enough, then start to know and also start to write about what I know. 

I can see a big mountain in front of me. I do not want to be weak, I do not want to be a sick person. I want to be strong, very strong. I want to carry this load and smash it. I want to prove to myself that I can. I go further, I go and I ignore all the barriers, all the unwanted and I make it one day. 

 

Agenda for Tuesday Meeting

The only issue that Im concern is those themes that I extracted through coding and also Reliability. So, Ill send my writing and ask her about that.

• Evaluating my writing
• Research design

Creating Cross References in Word

First Insert caption
Then Cross Reference

More info:

Create or update a cross-reference

Creating Cross References in Word

Great Source!

14-03-13
Research Methods in Education by Cohen
It has a useful part for Coding!

14-03-16
Comparative Education Research
Good in Habermas theory

14-03-24
Senior Engineering Students' view on Mathematics Courses in Engineering
Good In Analysis

14-03-24
Exploring Teachers' Experiences of Educational Technology
The Contextual Characteristics of Successful Small ...
Good in Thesis Writing

14-07-17
Curriculum restructuring
Good in Curriculum definition

14-08-25
Application of Constructive
Good in Analysis of the coding based on Bloom

14-08-25
Application of Constructive
Good in Revised Bloom for Computer Science

14-09-10
Exploring the Culture of Engineering
Good in The goals of using questionnaire

Keep Writing!

Its more than one week since I wrote my last post. I was extremely busy, managing time between work & study.
Today I need to

• work on writing. 
• check emails for workshops
• check questionnaire
• revise Ethics details 
• do the Ethics
• Appointment to see LD staff

Correlation! And reliability test!

I have done all the coding again and I also did the correlation test to see how much my coding similar to Elena's.

All the categories seem fine, except the 'Practical Implementation'. So, Im trying to see it course by course to find out what was the issue.

Surprisingly, there was a mistake in entering data. When I revised the data and did the correlation, it appears fine :)...

Pearson or Spearman?

Pearson assumes the rating scale is continuous. '
"Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient (r) is based on the mean distance of data points from the line of best fit through the scattergram. This coefficient is intended for use with continuous interval level; variables but, as a convenience, in practice it is often used with ordinal variables" (Research method notes). 

Spearman assumes only that it is ordinal.
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The first line in each box is the correlation coefficient.
The second line is the statistical significance level for the coefficient.
Third line is the number of cases.

Coefficients with a significance level of less than .05 maybe taken to be statistically significant. "In communication, it is convention that if this value is less than .05, then the correlation is considered to 
be significant (meaning that the researcher can be 95% confident that the relationship between these two 
variables is not due to chance)".

How do I report Pearson's r APA style? 

Interrater reliability (Kappa)

Count nonblank cells in Excel

=COUNTA(A2:A6)	Counts the number of nonblank cells in the list above (3)
=COUNTA(A2:A3, A6)	Counts the number of nonblank cells in the top two, and bottom cell in the list (1)

Go ahead!

I came to the Uni yesterday (Sunday 2nd, March) and finished the recoding. Here is my today TO DO list:

• Check how can I do the reliability test.
• Make the list of academics for Elena.
• Think about questionnaire.