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Preliminary Issues/Questions

Meeting on July 7, 2005

Charles, in his review of several of the letters, had these observations:

  • The section of the letters we are reviewing won't tell us what goes on at the workshop.
  • The section of the letters we are reviewing may tell us about our teachers...what we know about the people who come to the workshop.
  • The section of the letters we are reviewing shows little uniformity in how this section was completed, didn't show many new practices (at least in some of them), and showed few philosophical underpinnings.
  • Even though there is a template for the letters, there is no template :)

Questions about the data:

  1. What/how do people name the changes they undergo as teachers or do they name them?
  2. Can we find something out by paying attention to whether the teachers wrote about product ("I gave checklists.") or process ("I began to use checklists so my students could learn to assess their own work.")?

Questions about the research process:

  • Can we derive a philophical stance from what people have written?  We both think this is possible.
  • How can two people doing the same work be effective in the completion of this work?
# Posted 7/8/05; 2:09:00 PM to the Karen Department - Comment [0] -

News Research

Reposted from my weblog:
 
We are planning to look at the Reflections on Teaching section in the cover letters.  We want to see if we can find patterns to the kinds of changes people note that occur in their teaching as a result of attending the workshop.  We will look the sections in the letters and make note of the changes each person reports.  Then, we'll try to categorize them in some way and begin to see what emerges.  We can use excel in order to keep track of the various kinds of changes we see and the number of times we see them.

 

Posted by Karen McComas on 6/23/05; 12:48:50 PM to the WAC Department

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