Thesis Feedback

Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: Mumblings of the JLB
On Wednesday I had feedback fro my supervisors … I’m not certain how to rate it … it certainly wasn’t fantastic feedback but neither was it “go back and do your whole thesis”. Doug commented that the thesis does appear to be a late draft of a thesis but had [...]

Research Questions … yes again!

Mood:  rushed
Now Playing: Baat Meri Suniya To Zara (Kuch Naa Kaho)
Well, James said I had to rephrase my research question. My current research question as it stands is as follows:
“How does the use of software modes influence the learning of mathematics with respect to the three task types?”
Well, first of all he didn’t like the word [...]

Chapter 6 and Conclusion

Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: I’d be lying (Chris Cagle)
Well, I sent off my Chapter 6 (not the greatest but a chapter!) – and John sent me back some comments – he wanted more information on my conclusions – ok my conclusion was woefully thin – so really got to bump that up, but I think I’ll [...]

I just may have a theoretical framework!

Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Tapping of keys in an Open Plan Office
Well, I’m back from holiday and my one week bout with dengue fever (not pleasant!) – still feeling a bit lethargic from it (energy levels are really low). Anywho, just had a meeting with Doug and it has cleared up some stuff I was wrestling on. [...]

Probably my main findings!

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 [...]

Theoretical Frameworks

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Ye Raat Bheegi Bheegi (Chori Chori)
Topic: Analytical Frameworks
So, had a meeting with Doug and James yesterday where we discussed theoretical frameworks – that’s still take sometime to get my head around it. Anyway, we were talking about constructivists theory which I barely have any clue of … but they seem to think [...]

Supervision meeting

Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Wild Child (Enya)
Topic: Meetings
Yesterday afternoon I had my supervision meeting, and strangely enough all three of them were there. Now that was surprising since I only expected Doug and James.
Anyway, we got to talking about how to developed the mathematical tasks to see what occurs when using the black-box and white-box software. [...]

Probation Proposal

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Poor Shirley (Christopher Cross)
Topic: Methodology
Well, had a meeting with Doug yesterday about my probation report and it went surprisingly much better than I expected. But he did say my methodology was a bit thin. I need to improve that and decide my sample size etc.
Well what I did say was that I [...]

Meeting with James

Mood:  down
Now Playing: Ain’t That a Shame (Fats Domino)
Topic: Meetings
I met up with James the week before Friday (10th Feb) and was supposed to write up some of the stuff he told me here or either in meeting notes and I didn’t get around to it – and I felt bad I hadn’t done it [...]

Met with James in the corridor

Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: I’m a Believer (The Monkees)
Topic: Meetings
So, just met James in the corridor and we were discussing the BSRLM conference and I told him although it was ok, I didn’t think it was that useful. He suggested that sometime in future I should make a trip down to Bristol, since they are [...]