Right when I thought that the path to the finish line, that is week 15, would be all downhill from now - I get a very pleasant reality check courtesy of Dvorak ( as usual).. survey questions! Of course I figured this would be an easy task to complete - 10 minutes tops, but oh no of course, his classes are never what they seem to be - he's quite deceiving! I'm sure this is an intentional approach to get students lured into taking this class over another. Anyway.... as I was proven wrong on Tuesday by the amount of time my small group of 3 took to help/assist/edit one of my fellow classmates survey questions - I now need to rethink what the main goal is for these survey questions. Not only did these surveys leave me discouraged, but my first interview (which was conducted today) also left me discouraged, disappointed - blank, with a big question mark lurking over my head and the many scrambling thoughts, as I left unaware of my bearings.
Now prior to the interview - I thought, this is what is going to give my project the "substance", as Dvorak says, but I'm not too sure substance is what I got, rather than a lot of confusion.
First of all, the interview went extremely well, I got to my location on time, had a few minutes to chat - explain what the project entailed and then state the process of the interview and how my respondent would be of help.
I recorded it, so all I took notes of was: his body language, facial expressions and my overall interpretation of his knowledge.
Sadly, I feel that his relationship with my mother (co-workers) affected his answers - maybe he didn't want to offend me or her. Plus, him already knowing that I am Hispanic, I feel made him think through his answers before saying them. I am more than positive that this will happen with other interviewees - which makes me a bit apprehensive as to the supposed "substance" that I should be getting from these interviews.
I need to make sure that I have just as much substance from my text based information as well as from the interviews. (sigh -very deep sigh).
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