RTP Progress Report #5

RTP Progress Report #5

Barbara Bloemers

The progress report is a summary of the progress you have made on your project since your last report. It should be at least 1 page long, although it might be longer, if you choose to use the report as opportunity to write up your current thinking in preparation for subsequent analysis and reporting.
At minimum, your progress reports should address these questions:
How is it going? What has happened since your last report?
Honestly, I’ve been discouraged at my ability to compel the administrative staff to become more excited about having a resource to technology by having a SME (subject matter expert) at their beck and call who is also excited and willing to assist their tech needs and questions. I’m not getting a lot of requests for technical assistance except for an occasional “how do you do that?” kind of question about once a week.
How you are progressing towards the next phase of your project work?
The next step of my project is putting the original research paper, date gathered and insights into a research paper of consequence. There is still a lot to do. Fortunately, I have finished all the assignments for my other graduate class and I am focusing on this paper.
Are there any issues or problems that have been temporary roadblocks?
The job demands, as my primary duties do not include technology education, and the job demands of the administrative staff remain to be a major roadblock. Although previously mentioned we do have staff meetings twice a week which I utilize for technology updates. I usually present some sort of new technology once a week which includes presenting comments from a well-known speaker and technology tips. There has been a response to the speaker presentations as this presentation has been requested to be used by the team leaders for their own staff meetings.
How have your addressed these issues or problems? Is there anything you would do differently next time?
I believe adjusting to the various technology abilities, needs and interests will allow me to pursue the training of the staff.
I don’t think I would do anything different next time? The class was actually well received by those needing the training less received by the one or two staff members who had prior knowledge.
Your data collection thus far from SurveyMonkey isn’t earth shattering. I have been able to expose the staff in more interesting aspects of technology such as SurveyMonkey’s use with their own staff for surveys.
How is it going?
The research paper is very scattered. I would like to turn it into a scholarly paper but representing the data seems daunting.
What does the data you are collecting tell you about the impact of your intervention (what is it capturing)?
Ironically, the data collected captures the difficulty in training adults, the original problem stated.
What (if anything) is it missing?
The data results are missing the easy answer to training adults who have various distractions at work.
Re: April 22nd Meeting
Patty Watson () at 4/22/2007 1:40 PM
Here are my notes:
Mark: 40 pages and going strong. He's still trying to figure out how work with "comment" style data. Took a professional day to get some work done. Was worried about getting it done on time, but now feeling better. Will try to submit a draft for his last progress report. Been very busy with school lately.
Barbara: Data collection, small groups, but all done. Other class is done so focusing with this now. Is this a pass/fail?
Patty: Discussed with Mark about how to categorize "comment" style data, like she got from interviews. Concerned about the data collected earlier in the year. The interview gave me good data, but the pre-survey and during project surveys weren't good data. So, now what do I do with it?
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April 22nd Meeting
Mark Brookes () at 4/22/2007 1:26 PM
Seems poor Jeff is still battling the technology black hole of Ghana as he couldn't connect with us again.
Barbara, Patty and Mark all made it. Seems deadlines have a way to bring people together.
The main focus of the discussion was data. Patty was concerned that some of her data that she collected was no longer valid or difficult to deal with. As to what to do with it is the problem.
Barbara has only just finished her other classes so now has time to focus on her project. Barbara is done with her data collection and is concerned with the data she has. She may try to collect more data.
Mark took a day off from work to put large pieces of the project. Now that these are done, the fine tuning is next on the list. This is mainly the data analysis, of both the qualitative and quantitative.
We are all in the final throws of putting together our project and aim to send a draft in the next week.
General comments:
Patty mentioned she had problems with design of data having to collect it over a period of time and a variety of participants.
Mark mentioned that continuous collection of data made it difficult for our group as we had to constantly collect data whereas other groups did activities in one hit and have all their data at once. Plus elementary teachers who had their class as their test subjects were in their classroom all day.
Patty mentioned that one of her problems was that her participants were inconsistent in participation. She mentioned that having the test as a way to get credits for
accreditation would help with participation. But since Patty doesnt have a Masters this accreditation wouldnt work.
Technical problems occurred during this one as Barbara dropped out but returned. Unknown reason for losing the connection.
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