Thursday 19 November 2015

Data collection

I am in the process of transcribing some of the video data I have.  Of course it is explained in many of the books I read on collecting data that this is a long process.  I was very worried that with my change of amount of students for the group I was studying that I wouldn't have enough data.  It was through reading the chapter on 'Writing about Data' (Holliday 2008 - Doing and Writing Qualitative Data) that I realise your data is what you make of it.  Now after spending a few hours just transcribing 30 mins of one of my videos its exciting to see the 'themes' emerging and that what I felt initially as being a random and not very organized study is starting to make sense.  Through the 'thick descriptions' of seemingly insignificant behaviours and words  I realise as a teacher I don't often really 'see' what is going on with my students other than what they doing as regards to dance steps.   Still I feel a bit behind now having underestimated the amount of data I do have and hope I get through it all in time.  Starting to feel a bit more confident that I can in fact analyse data.  Thanks Adrian Holliday!  Anyone else working with video data?