Blog about your thinking on your qualitative vs. quantitative data analysis: 1. Why did you choose the analysis methods that you chose? 2. How did each method that you chose answer your research question? I am conducting action research to analyze and support my hypothesis that BEST practices need to be created for online learners. I will employ mixed methods to gather data. First, I will use quantitative data measures because it will be used for the collection of data from the district’s past BEST practices results. Quantitative data measures will also be used to analyze the results from CommonSense.org as to why they concluded digital citizenship lessons needed to be created. Finally, I will use qualitative data research to measure the need for an online BEST program to include digital citizenship at our elementary school sites. It will measure the effectiveness of positive online behavior. As of today, I have started collecting quantitative data from my students in regards to their online usage and their prior knowledge (pre-assessment) about online responsibility, kindness, respect and safety. These four Building Effective Schools Together (BEST) characteristics are our core values at Snow Elementary. An example of online responsibility is shown below: 81.8% of my 3rd grade students know it is a responsibility of themselves to go on a website that they know is OK for kids their age. 13.6% say I can say funny things to make people laugh. Finally, 4.6% say they can download an app that a cousin has shared. An example of kindness is 54.5% of my 3rd grade students think they should only care about themselves online, while 45.5% do not agree. I hope to turn those numbers around once my students have learned about Digital Citizenship. I asked my students the following respectful online behavior question, "Miguel is reading about Minecraft tricks in an online community for gamers. He does not agree with how Minecraft_Ninja says to do a trick. Miguel responds, 'You don't know anything, Minecraft_Ninja. No one wants to read your post.' Is Miguel being a good digital citizen in his community?" 72.7% responded that "No, Miguel is not being a good digital citizen because his post could make Minecraft_Ninja feel bad. Even if he disagrees, he can say it nicely". 22.7% say "No, Miguel is not being a good digital citizen because he's posting in an online community". 4.6% said, "Yes, Miguel is being a good digital citizen because he is talking with others and participating, even if he disagrees". Finally, an example of a safety question and response is: "Jose created a password with his name and favorite sport. His password is 'JoseSoccer". Why should Jose choose another password?" 63.6% responded, "JoseSoccer uses his name and doesn't use symbols or numbers". 18.2% said, "JoseSoccer is too long". 13.6% responded that "JoseSoccer is hard to remember". Finally, 4.5% said, "Jose likes basketball, too". I will use a sample of my convenience sample for qualitative data analysis. I plan to use Flipgrid recordings to interview students about digital citizenship and their online usage. Stay tuned...that part is still to come. P.S. I apologize for not attaching the last three pie chart images. I had a very difficult time getting the image app to work within the body of my text. I will continue to work on this but I got to a level of frustration tonight that is not worth elevating my blood pressure.
3 Comments
Jamie Allison Lutz
4/4/2021 02:19:33 pm
The responses that you have received from kids for the presurvey were interesting! This is some interesting quantitative data. I'm looking forward to seeing the comparison of this survey after you lessons too.
Reply
Janine Burt
4/7/2021 01:13:57 pm
Hi Kimberlee, this is such interesting research. I'm always amazed at what we think kids know only to find out that reality is very different. Your work is so timely and I'm curious to see the responses from commonsense.org and how they made decisions for this work. I would love for your lessons to be available for others to try replicate if you get the results you're hoping for.
Reply
Susan Craig
4/7/2021 04:05:05 pm
Hi Kimberlee,
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2021
Categories |