Collecting+Data

from class notes

= __On The Collecting of Data__ =

__Field notes can come via:__
-Get another colleague to make observations. (Especially if you ask your colleague what to watch for...) -Voice recording (during or after)

-Post-its (on the fly) -Reflection (journaling) -Student work (and recording their commentary) is a powerful way to gather data.... [Evernote]

Will I do Anecdotal? Photographic?

Tell your story as a narrative...

Chap 3 The Artist's Toolbox: Strategies for Data Collection [from, __The Art of Inquiry, A Handbook for Teacher-Researchers__, by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard & Brenda Miller Power] ISBN 0-325-00543-5, LB 1028.25.U6 H83 2003

Note taking

Anecdotal records

-daily notes -conferences -status of the class sheets -weekly lists of students and the activities they have complted -small group logs

Note taking methods and skills See page 43

-raw/narrative notes -t notes -take time to make notes throughout the day even a few minutes here and there

-there are four categories of notes. Field notes, methodological notes, theororetical notes and personal notes. See page 50

Field notes

-direct observations of what i see in the classroom (am i describing the field fully)?

Methodological notes

-notes on the way your note taking changes (are there places in my notes that call for changes in the way i am doing research?)

Theororetical notes

-when you link when you are seeing to theory (what theories am i developing or supporting through what i am seeing)?

Personal notes

-when you note personal events in your own life or in that of the student (what in my life or the lives of my studnets is affecting what i see?)

Cooked notes

-when you reflect on your notes (t notes)

Notes on note taking

focus on particulars try to include details that will spark memory later in remembering events and dialogue write fast don't edit or revise when you first take notes write down actual quotes in the students' dialect don't correct how the student says it don't censor what you write with your teachers eyes include even those things that you may at the time see as looking badly on your teaching incorporate your own literacy in your own notetaking strategies take notes that fit your strength/learning style

Keep your journal handy! pick a regular time of the day to reflect use your journal during small moments of time think rough copy experiment

Scrap book (page 60) interviews (page 63,68) surveys (page 64/65) graphing interviews (page 66/67), parent surveys (page 69) teacher surveys (page 71) sociograms (page 74,76) sociogram questions (page 78) transcriptions (page 79, 81-83) photos (page 84)