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Interrater reliability (& the black walnut)
I’ve been preparing online discussion data for alternate coders to calculate intercoder or interrater reliability (IRR) in content analysis for my thesis. IRR can be defined as “the extent to which different coders, each coding the same content, come to the same coding decisions” (Rourke, Anderson, Garrison & Archer, 2001) Considered the primary test of…
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QuickPost Bookmarklet
I just discovered the QuickPost bookmarklet feature in Movable Type 3.31 that lets me compose an entry directly from a website that I’m on and would like to blog about (and link to) by clicking on a bookmark. For browsing, I generally use Mozilla Firefox or Safari, both of which can display bookmarks on the…
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Thesis defense thoughts
As a graduate researcher working on a research project investigating how online graduate students develop their academic identities, I was really intrigued by my partner Will’s recent experiences in defending his master’s thesis. The external examiner characterized the thesis as “a pioneering study” in their area, and it passed oral examination with no revisions. He’s…
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Before and after
Just in time for the new school year, my blog has had a makeover. Before, it looked thus: In the current Movable Type (MT) 3.31 version of my weblog, the Zoomclouds tag cloud and Flickr flash button that were formerly on the right toolbar are no longer. This may change, but I’m presently distracted by…
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Research Design | Design-Based Research
Although I am still analyzing data, lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about thesis writing in general and writing up design-based research (DBR) in particular. Since I completed my methodology comps in spring 2004, at least a couple more special issues on design-based research have been published, for example, Educational Psychologist 39(1) and Educational Technology…
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Knowledge Forum 4.6 Applets
Thanks to Chew Lee for encouraging me to try the third-party applets to analyze thesis data in my Knowledge Forum 4.6 databases. The applet list icon appears unobtrusively in the left-hand toolbar, and when you click on it, five tools are displayed: Contribution shows descriptive statistical data that I previously used ATK for: notes contributed,…
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Summer Reading
P7110017.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. Well, sort of. I’ve been reading various things–most recently on teacher beliefs, conceptual change, and academic literacy–but I’ve been meaning to blog about activity theory for awhile now. I am not using this theoretical framework in my thesis research, but I keep coming back to it out of curiosity. During…
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Graphing my weblog
Nobuko’s weblog as graph Originally uploaded by nfujita. Just for fun, check out websiteasgraph where you can generate a graph of a website, or in my case, my weblog!! There is also a flickr tag websiteasgraph where you can share them. Interestingly, I found reference to the websitegraph on a knitting blog, Mason-Dixon Knitting .…
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Reading: Part I
I wanted to blog on what I’ve been reading, but I’ve been preoccupied with data analysis and writing. In NVivo, I’ve now organized some free nodes into tree nodes, refined my coding scheme, and begun synthesizing my paper-based journal scribbles into a more organized electronic copy. Nonetheless, I figured I better blog because the longer…
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On Reading
In midst of my paper-writing mêlée in the month of May, I read many sources. I composed various weblog entries on these articles and books, but didn’t actually publish them. To be honest, I couldn’t polish the entries into a coherent-enough state to share during breaks from data analysis and writing. Now that I’ve had…