This week I did four days of observations and did a focus group and final survey today (Friday). I don’t know if I got any really good information out of the focus group because my boys were in silly moods and couldn’t stick to the question at hand. It made it difficult, but I think I may have gotten a few snippets of information I can use. Last focus group we got through the questions in 10 minutes, they were focused, it was new, today it took 45 minutes to get through the seven questions. I can see hours of transcribing in my weekend.
In the end I had like fifteen days of observations. I don’t know how I got that much, but I guess it’s okay. I’m glad to be done with this phase of the research because it took away from some of my tasks in class that are hard to manage while also observing. I feel like the boys got the point of why I did the project today, because they realized at the end of our focus group today, that they enjoy math more because they know me better and we can joke around and be silly. Because of that their grades have actually improved because when they enjoy a class they put more effort into it.
In the end I had like fifteen days of observations. I don’t know how I got that much, but I guess it’s okay. I’m glad to be done with this phase of the research because it took away from some of my tasks in class that are hard to manage while also observing. I feel like the boys got the point of why I did the project today, because they realized at the end of our focus group today, that they enjoy math more because they know me better and we can joke around and be silly. Because of that their grades have actually improved because when they enjoy a class they put more effort into it.