EDUC7043NA Education Project

Useful notes/ ideas highlighted during the 1st Intensive:

(I) Interviewing Skills

Observation (in particular, the don'ts):

(I) Questioning Techniques
  • It appears, at several junctures, that there wasn't any probing for clarity to the responses from the interviewees. For instance, at the beginning, the interviewers provided a list of qualities or traits of a good teacher, which were mostly one word. The interviewer could have probed for elaboration or prompt the interviewees to give examples. This would allow one to check for clarity and also the understanding of the terms. This is especially helpful here because of the differences of the interviewees' background/ culture.
  • Simliarly, at some point, one of the interviewees mentioned about meeting the needs of the students. This was an entry point to rich info which the interviewer did not leverage on. One could probe further to find out "What are the needs?", "What are some ways the teacher could address to the needs?", and even "to what extend this has been sufficiently addressed to?"
  • ... {to be continued}
(II) Data Analysis

Observation:

(III) Coding an "Interview": Line by Line Coding

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EDUC7011 Lesson 21 - Exercises 6 through 8


6.     Compute total attitude scores from the scores for the five attitudinal items. The total attitude scores should reflect whether students have a general positive attitude toward campaigning.

Note:
att1 has been recoded to become att1_Recode.
TotalAttitude is the sum of att2, att3, att4, att5 and att1_Recode

att1
att2
att3
att4
att5
politic
att1_Recode
TotalAttitude
4
4
2
2
2
2
2
12
4
4
5
5
1
1
2
17
4
4
4
5
2
1
2
17
3
3
3
3
1
2
3
13
4
2
4
4
4
1
2
16
3
3
2
2
2
2
3
12
4
4
2
2
4
2
2
14
2
1
2
2
1
2
4
10
2
4
4
2
2
1
4
16
2
3
3
2
2
2
4
14
5
3
5
4
4
1
1
17
4
3
2
2
1
2
2
10
2
1
1
1
1
2
4
8
3
2
3
3
2
2
3
13
2
3
3
3
3
1
4
16
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
15
1
1
1
1
1
2
5
9
4
3
2
2
3
1
2
12
2
2
2
2
2
2
4
12
3
2
2
4
3
1
3
14
1
3
4
3
1
1
5
16
4
3
4
4
1
1
2
14
1
4
5
4
2
1
5
20
3
2
2
2
1
2
3
10
3
2
2
2
2
2
3
11
4
4
4
2
2
1
2
14
4
2
2
2
2
2
2
10
2
3
2
3
2
1
4
14
3
4
3
3
2
1
3
15
2
2
2
2
1
2
4
11
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
15
2
2
2
2
3
2
4
13
4
4
4
3
3
1
2
16
2
2
2
2
1
2
4
11
4
4
2
2
2
1
2
12
4
4
4
4
3
1
2
17
3
2
3
4
2
1
3
14
4
2
3
2
1
2
2
10
4
3
4
2
2
1
2
13
3
3
2
4
2
1
3
14

Please refer to attachment (working file)
7.     Compute means on the total attitude scores for the two political parties.

Figure 4
Descriptives

Political Party
Statistic
Std. Error
Total Attitude Score
Republican
Mean
15.19
.418
95% Confidence Interval for Mean
Lower Bound
14.32

Upper Bound
16.06

5% Trimmed Mean
15.11

Median
15.00

Variance
3.662

Std. Deviation
1.914

Minimum
12

Maximum
20

Range
8

Interquartile Range
3

Skewness
.410
.501
Kurtosis
.634
.972
Democrat
Mean
11.47
.428
95% Confidence Interval for Mean
Lower Bound
10.57

Upper Bound
12.37

5% Trimmed Mean
11.47

Median
11.00

Variance
3.485

Std. Deviation
1.867

Minimum
8

Maximum
15

Range
7

Interquartile Range
3

Skewness
.132
.524
Kurtosis
-.638
1.014

From Figure 4, the means on the total attitude scores for Republican and Democrat are 15.19 and 11.47 respectively.

8.     Create boxplots showing the distributions of the total attitude scores for the two political parties.

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