Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: This is the night (Clay Aiken)
I haven’t posted something in this blog for so long and I’ve been procrastinating doing it as well – just like writing my thesis I guess. Anyway, I think I’ve finished all my data analysis and currently writing up Chapter 5 (yes I know I’ve been doing that [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘PhD’
May 29, 2008
Probably my main findings!
April 23, 2008
The world of repeated measures and covariates!
Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: Porpoise song (The Monkees)
Well, I’m back from holiday about 2 weeks now, and decided I should really post something in this blog.
Problem: Between Subject * Within Subject Interaction After Adding Covariate
I’ll just give an update on where I am at this point in time. Well, previously I was using maths confidence and order [...]
March 10, 2008
Data analysis – why isn’t there any significance!?!
Mood: hug me
Now Playing: Nothin’ but the Wheel (Patty Loveless)
I have been bogged down (or trapped) in doing my quantitative data analysis. I can’t find anything special or significant about anything really. So, that is a bit depressing.
When I check overall statistical differences at a higher level (multivariate analysis) – I can’t find anything of real [...]
February 28, 2008
Data Collection – More Worries!
Mood: hug me
Now Playing: Audio from my data collection
I’ve been trying to transcribe my data and also synchronize my videos. I find it easiest to synchronize my videos with audio using Dubit and inputting the wav file. Although got to use Audacity to convert the mp3 into a wav file – and it makes it huge! [...]
February 11, 2008
Vygotsky and Self-explanations
Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: Gill’s mobile ringtone
I think this literature review is starting to make some more sense but not entirely sure. I think I’m going to see how well I can link Vygotsky with self-explanations, some guy called Schwarz had done some work in this area so, I’m going to have a read of his papers tonight [...]
February 8, 2008
Distributed Cognition
Mood: quizzical
Now Playing: I Have Nothing (Whitney Houston)
I’ve been trying to get my ahead around three concepts: Vygotsky’s idea of psychological tools, activity theory and distributed cognition as I think they’ll all form part of my literature review.
Anyway, yesterday I was reading Gavriel Salomon’s paper on “No distribution without individuals’ cognition: a dynamic interractional view” which [...]
February 4, 2008
Restarting the literature review
Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: If you leave me now (Chicago)
Right, I’ve decided to restart looking at my literature review – because the truth is I have no idea – and the weekend certainly didn’t make it any clearer. So, what I’m going to do without any pressure of looking at a word document is to write here [...]
January 29, 2008
Literature Review
Mood: rushed
Now Playing: Little Old Wine Drinker, Me (Dean Martin)
Topic: Literature Review
Right, I’ve been trying to get my head around my literature review and have to say it has not worked! I have no idea what I’m writing or where to start. It seems like a bunch of words with no story with nothing really [...]
January 21, 2008
Back to work …
Mood: cool
Now Playing: White Christmas (Dean Martin)
Topic: Data Collection
Well, after my Christmas break I’m back at the OU … whilst the Christmas break may seem long – I seemed to be occupied after New Years doing mostly my PhD work unfortunately (or fortunately). I collected two more observations – so got four more – but have [...]
December 19, 2007
Meeting with John Mason
Mood: a-ok
Topic: Meetings
So John and I met for lunch on Thursday last week together with Safiya (??) to talk a bit about my work. So, carried along my preliminary analysis to see if he has any ideas and whether he can point me in some direction and he has given me some leads.
He indicated he [...]
