Analyzing data has come with a lot of thinking for me. I have printed out all my final copies of data that I have gathered over the weeks and have a pile of it to wade through. I’ve begun to realize that when it comes to relationships with students there is a variable. The variable is that the students don’t know me that well, it’s seven boys, they aren’t real talkative and share your feelings like girls, so getting to know them is like breaking down a break wall. I have begun too, but I don’t think the time was long enough to really break down the wall all the way. So at the end of the week, if they did what they were supposed too and I didn’t really have to get after them, scores were high. However, if it was a rowdy week and I had to remind them to quiet down or get after them when they just wouldn’t listen, survey scores were down. That is the main thing I have thought about this week going through and averaging the survey scores and reading through the final focus group.
Tonight I went to the store and bought some poster board and tape. This weekend and during our week off, I’m going to write the three questions on my posters and tape the different data that relates to each question. This will make the data much easier to look at I think and I feel like it’ll be easier to analyze. It’ll also be a bit like a puzzle as I put all the pieces together. I figure if it relates to a crafty project maybe it’ll be more fun, at least this is what I’m going to keep telling myself if it stops snowing long enough to get anything productive done besides shoveling.
Tonight I went to the store and bought some poster board and tape. This weekend and during our week off, I’m going to write the three questions on my posters and tape the different data that relates to each question. This will make the data much easier to look at I think and I feel like it’ll be easier to analyze. It’ll also be a bit like a puzzle as I put all the pieces together. I figure if it relates to a crafty project maybe it’ll be more fun, at least this is what I’m going to keep telling myself if it stops snowing long enough to get anything productive done besides shoveling.