Tuesday, January 28, 2014
2 hour delay...but the show must go on
So today, after missing an entire week of school due to snow days, we finally returned to yesterday and had a two hour delay today (which is consequently the day that I meet with my participants). What I can tell you after I began to summarize some of the Garfield Writing Attitude Survey results, the participants' results were quite varied from one another in different areas of the survey. Some basic information about my participants, all of them are in the fifth grade at Made-up Elementary (pseudonym) and my participant pool consists of two female participants and three male participants. I am very interested to discover what they choose to write about, how their writing will or will not be a stereotypical reflection specific to their gender, or perhaps offer a surprise that contradicts those stereotypes. More information to come soon...
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Snow days seem to be causing chaos everywhere! It sounds like you are on the right track with the survey. I always like hearing about student interests too. It will be fun to hear about what they choose too. I love that you are allowing them to choose their own topic.
ReplyDeleteThat is very inconvient for you when you have snow delays since you pull your students in the morning. I think it is good that you are working with both males and females. In doing this, you may see differences in gender. I think fifth grade is a wonderful age to do your research with. They should be highly motivated to write for a school newspaper. So they get free choice of what to write for the school newspaper?
ReplyDeleteYes my participants will choose their topics to write about.
ReplyDeleteI think the real value of using the Garfield and KPREP of your participants vs. the 5th grade as a whole is important. It will provide the reader with a comparison--are they somewhat representative of the population as a whole (population of 5th graders that is). So do plan to get surveys from the entire 5th grade regarding writing, which will give you some fun analysis during these cold days.
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