March 3, 2009
A long, long time ago, in a college about a quarter mile off Interstate 880…four students and a teacher, fueled by a SPECC grant, set out on an epic quest to ask the questions no one dared to ask about reading. Facing over 125 daunting student intake essays, 50 hours of intensive interviews, and [...]
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Developing Questions, Fear, Identity, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence |
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February 28, 2009
Some Tips For Interviewing Set up appointments well in advance. Be prepared for some people to flake out. It may take 2-3 attempts for you to land the interview. Because your inquiry is about education, of course you will feel that your interviews should naturally take place in classrooms. But that doesn’t have [...]
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Making Visible, Student Interviews, Student Voice |
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February 26, 2009
Students as co-inquirers are incredibly resourceful in interpreting student data and in educational reform…Remember, student researchers don’t have to be enrolled in the class they are studying. In fact our making visible team was composed of four determined poets who had taken a few classes together.
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Making Visible, Student Teams, Student Voice |
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February 21, 2009
There are many ways to capture Student Voices. We hope the list below offers some starting points for you and your team. We will add to this list as we begin to hear other ideas from FIN teams. Faculty interviews student . Student interviews student. Student interviews herself—self-reflection. Roundtable—group of students discuss issues put before [...]
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Making Visible, Multimedia, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Surveys, Think Alouds, Video Evidence |
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February 21, 2009
For many faculty, engaging student voices as objects of Inquiry may seem rather obvious. After all, if we want to know what our students are thinking about their education, it would make sense to ask them. What may seem less obvious, however, is the idea that students have a role to play as Co-Inquirers. There [...]
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Multimedia, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Uncategorized, Video Evidence |
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