Summary Week 2

This week students were asked to develop a literature review outline for the article we will write. After a few days it became apparent that they didn't understand what was needed. We held a special lab meeting on Thursday night in which we laid out a plan for the outline and asked students to sign for sections of the literature review. In the third week they will begin writing up their sections.

We have finally received all of our transcripts from the interviews and I have been working on analyzing some of the interview questions. It always amazes me how long it takes to do so! Qualitative analysis is very labor intensive; it is not a fast method! If you want to get a project done quickly – quantitative (i.e., surveys) are much faster! However, interviews provide such rich data that it is hard for me not to collect it!

Things will be tricky over the next few weeks – holidays always make things slow down and I then have some family issues to deal with. Hopefully, we won’t get too behind in our posts.

Lee Stadtlander