Chapter 4 Reflection Blog

Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Interpretation: A lot of uncertainity and challenges take place during this data analysis and intrepertation stage. When it comes to interpretation we must be careful how we do so since often we are quick to judge and make assumptions. Note-taking and Note-making is one way to help define judgements/assumptions verses evidence. In action research interpretation is a deliberate action, requiring preperation and formal processes, when done correctly the data can be turned into evidence. Data Interpretation includes many areas, analysis, synthesis, deconstruction and contextualization. Each of these areas can be broken down into different sections to help you understand the data more fully. The analysis can be Informal ongoing or Formal ongoing. It is extremely important to keep your data organized. Everyone has their own system to keep materials and data organized. Having this type of organization will be very helpful in the end when you go to put the information together. I often struggle with exactly how to analyze my data but this chapter is very helpful in giving details on how to organize, interpret and analyze. I found the charts to be very useful and the material in the book to help me with my research process.

4th grade

Starting next week I will be full time teaching the 4th grade classroom I am placed in. I have a lot of ideas that I would like to incorporate in the classroom eventually. Starting next week I will be adding another job to the classroom jobs. The job that I am adding in, is balloon pop attendance. Balloon Pop is done on the smartboard. Each balloon has a name of a student on it. When they arrive they pop their balloon then they will fill out the attendance sheet. Starting next week I will also be integrating music and movement into the classroom for my research project. I am anxious to see how it will all go but I am nervous about all of the data I will be collecting and will have to keep organized. I have decided that one way I will keep things organized is by dividing each of the 6 weeks into 6 different colored folders and using different colored notebook paper for each week to write the data on. This way I can keep things organized weekly and then in the end it will be easy to identify all of the different weeks of data due to the different colors of the paper and folders.