It's been a very busy and productive week! I'm feeling tired now but I've got a lot done! I've mainly been organizing my data and finalising my research questions so that on Monday I can run my stats. If anything this project has taught me to update my excel skills!
I finish next Wednesday so I will do a big project round up, strengths and weakness then. As well as posting my research questions and some results!
On Monday:
- coded 4 failed trials
- some of my stats had been exported - started going over the spreadsheets and doing some rough organisation
- started finalizing my data plans
On Tuesday:
- finalized all my data plans and research questions (when my supervisor checks over them I'll post them!)
- worked on what I needed for my final data extraction on Friday
- Organised my data so that I can import it into SPSS
- sorted out the trials that needed manually editing
- worked some more on my presentation for next Wednesday
On Wednesday:
- did some background reading on previous joint attention studies conducted in a lab and what maternal strategies they used - this is so I can hopefully do a comparison of the strategies used in my study to show how they are not representative of everyday joint attention situations
- I organised the results I had for this lab based research so far
- I coded one more trial and got everything ready to do another one on Thursday
- I did some more work on my presentation - getting all my sources and references ready
On Thursday:
- re-edited my data plans after my supervisor looked over them - her feedback was really helpful!
- coded my final trial for the project!
- organised my data (we had to make some changes concerning pass rate and trial duration) - this all took me a while! But I feel a lot better about the data now!
- did some more on my presentation - its all coming together now!
- Tomorrow I have a meeting to discuss my stats! And then I'll start running them on Monday
On Friday:
- I did some work on my presentation - the background is all nearly done now!
- Had another stats meeting with my supervisor - I feel a lot more confident about running the stats now! We went through a practice example and finalized my data/research question plans
- All my data has now been exported so I spent a lot of the day organising this!
- I just did some preliminary descriptive statistics to find out the most common maternal attention directing strategies
- I then started to set up the data for running in the spss (stats) software!