Week #10

Rhode Island College • Feinstein School of Education & Human Development •

Dept. of Educational Studies

FNED 562

Inquiry into Classroom Practice

Week #10 --- Visualizing the Method and Magic of Coding

Classical Music for Studying

What was due for this session? Week #9 Online Activities

Goals for Today's Class: Bring your best, most organized data to class, as we’ll organize, code, and categorize to reveal themes and visually represent your findings.

Questions to Consider for this Session:

• Is your personal blog/ website up-to-date with all the memos and assignments? Start here, please, now, if not.
• Have any available data (field notes, charts, gradebook, etc.) ready to share.
• Open up your Literature Review --- What did you learn from your literature review that you intend to use in your own research study? Look for possible codes/ themes within the language that those scholars use.
• What themes/patterns keep arising in your data?
• Describe exactly the population you are studying. What/who are the outliers? Why? Draw conclusions; make deductions.

There are many ways to think about data --- how we organize, describe, and analyze it.

We're going to call this process "cooking our data."

PART ONE: Individualized writing and design

Groups to begin our class:

Dr. Carolyn will give each group an individual assignment.

To begin, you may review the Week #9 online assignments and texts + check out each others' products as ways to focus and connect.

Also, re-read Chapter 7 from The Power of Questions, "Making Sense of Your Learnings: Analyzing Data."

Dr. Carolyn is also available for individual conferencing. Please sign up on the whiteboard if you'd like to conference. If we have multiple sign-up's, we'll have to limit each conference to 5 minutes.

Need to get inspired by a new data collection type? Check out these digital literacy surveys: Survey #1 and Survey #2. They are nice models for high-interest student interactions. If you'd like to use these models to create Likert Scale surveys, check out this YouTube.

Need some clarification between writing explanations and assigning codes? Check out this doc, "Coding Qualitative Data."

PART TWO: Concept Mapping our Codes, Categories, and Themes

Use Google Drawing or other online tool to visually represent your findings to date on one page. Be able to describe it verbally to your partners. Post it on your personal 562 website/ blog.

What should I be working on for our next class --- which takes place on campus?

• Implement your intervention.
• Continue to collect data in your classroom/write field notes.
• Submit any assignments that you are missing on Blackboard.
• Be ready to write an argument statement in our next class.
• Continue to visualize the patterns and themes that are emerging in your research study.
• As you look over the template for the final paper, what sections give you the most confidence? Which sections are the most scary?