1) Define Validity (in your own words)
2) Describe why validity is essential to making sure your individual research is credible. Validity is the idea that your study accurately represents the people and events that you are studying and that your audience can trust the authenticity of your work. Without validity, your audience has no reason to trust your research or your conclusions. 3) Define Triangulation (in your own words) 4) Discuss ideas you have for how your data and work together to provide validity for your research and strengthen research study findings. Triangulation is the idea that using multiple types of data collection will improve the validity of your study, because you are seeing the same patterns across multiple methods. Because I have data from interviews, student reflective writing, and survey responses, I am able to make sure my students are speaking throughout my paper, and I am not speaking for them.
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This exercise was very helpful as a visual person to be able to see what a paper looks like and plan what my paper might look like. As I have been reading our text and comparing it to my project, I have gone back and forth many times over what approach to use. After reading and going through the case study on gun violence, I think my paper is going to be mostly case study with elements of phenomenology and narrative. My project is the story of mine and my students journey through this phenomena of teaching and learning about artistic voice. Right now in my diagram, I think there are a few boxes that could be flipped, for example, the methods and the description of the classroom. There are also boxes like the themes and analysis that need more detail of what will be discussed so that it looks more like my diagram of the gun violence article. I think as I continue to dig in to my data this finer points will become more clear. I also think that looking back at the Walker article on the concept-based high school classroom and diagramming it will be helpful moving forward.
Hi everyone! Most of my data came in the last week of the semester in the form of students' final digital portfolios and oral portfolio critique. As you can see from my image below, I have been somewhat successfully using voice to text to transcribe recordings of their critiques. After a lot of trial and error, I found that the best method was for me to play the recording in my ear on headphones and talk loudly and clearly enough that the voice to text software can pick up me repeating the student's speech. I did find a service that would transcibe for you, but at $0.79 a minute, I cannot afford to transcribe over 8 hours of recordings! I will be spending this weekend continuing to work through transcriptions and sorting student's digital portfolios into an uploadable form. I am a little concerned about being a person this semester, as the week our paper is due is also the week I am taking HS kids to conference art show, taking MS kids to competition, and setting up and chaperoning prom. I am thinking that Monday after will need to be a personal day :). After reading the chapter this week, I think my study makes the most sense as phenomenology, because I am studying the phenomena of students finding or growing their voice. As I was reading I imagined trying to complete the steps of analysis for each of the five approaches with my data. I originally thought that my piece might be a narrative study or grounded theory, but after doing this mental exercise, the steps for phenominology seemed to fit and make sense with my data set. Espeically since I am immersed in transcribing students final reflections, the bullet in the phenomenology section "developng significant statements about how individuals are experiencing the topic." stood out to me because I am finding and remembering statements that students made that were so profound about their artmaking process. Now if only I can get them transcibed properly so others can find them profound as well! |
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