Strategy to boost motivation - email 4

13 July 2009

Hi friends ,

I sincerely hope this mail will reach you in a happy mood today. I have posted a poll on my website at http://www.nurulhana.com/course/view.php?id=2 It is located at the left bar of the page. I would appreciate it if you could spare a few seconds to just click at your choice of answer. If you have extra time to spare, you could also participate in the online forum on 21st century teaching and learning by clicking http://www.nurulhana.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=12

I really hope the discussion will make us become better educators for the sake of our learners.

p/s: If you are not a member of the website, you need to create an account first by clicking http://www.nurulhana.com/
Then, click at 'create new account' located at the left bar of the website. Fill in your username, password and valid email address. You will then need to verify your email address by going to your mail and click on the link given.

Cheers from Hana

Strategy to boost motivation - email 3

12 July 2009

Dear friends,

There are a few updates on the website http://www.nurulhana.com/course/view.php?id=2

1. The resources parked on the website are undergoing some rerrangement to better improve the organisation of the contents.
2. A token of appreciation will be given to the most active participant in the online forum. Check it out at http://www.nurulhana.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=23
   

If you have not signed up to the website, please click at the link given and create a new account.
http://www.nurulhana.com

Strategy to boost motivation - email 2

9 July 2009

Dear friends,

I have posted a topic with regard to PPSMI for us to discuss online. If you are already a member to CoP for English language teachers website, please click on the link below to participate in the online forum.
http://www.nurulhana.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19 (log in using your username and password)

If you have not created any account, please go to the link below to sign up to the website
http://www.nurulhana.com/

Guide in creating a new account is posted on the front page of the website. Just scroll down the screen and you would be able to see it. Feel free to explore the resources parked in the website to help you in your teaching.

Thank you for your time and participation.

Strategy to boost motivation - email 1

7 Julyn2009

Dear friends,
Welcome to http://www.nurulhana.com A website created especially for teachers for their personal development.
If you have not signed up to the website, please click the link below to create new account.
http://www.nurulhana.com/login/signup.php
Feel free to use all the materials and resources parked on the website for your teaching.

If you are already a participant, please take the survey using the link given below.
http://www.nurulhana.com/mod/survey/view.php?id=106

Thank you for your time and cooperation. Feel free to participate in the online forums.

3rd training 26th June 2009

Three teachers turned up for the training this time. They are my TESL friends: Suzana Mohamed, Noor azlina Lajis and Hayati Idris.

Too bad the internet connection was pretty bad this time. Connection dropped every now and then making it difficult for us to carry on with the training smoothly. Suzana was not able to sign up at all. Somehow moodle refuse to accept her email address. Azlina was able to sign up while Yati has already signed up before.

I hope they are able to involve actively in the online forum.

Qualitative research interviewing

Dr Aini Hassan
ainihassan@hotmail.com
aini.um@gmail.com

20th June 2009
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Why interview?

• to understand the meaning people involved in education make of their experience
• provides access to the context of people's behaviour - provides a way to understand the meaning of that behaviour.
• basic assumption: the meaning people make of their experience affects the way they carry out that experience - causal explanation.
• allow us to enter into other people's perspective since we cannot observe feelings, thoughts & intentions. Besides, we cannot observe behaviors that took place at some previous point in time.

How many participants do we need?
1. sufficiency - sufficient to reflect range of participant & sites that make up the population. Use maximal variation : use data that are able to represent the population.
causal explanation.
2. saturation: interviewer begins to hear same info reported; no longer learning anything new.
3. logistics n resources consideration
4. always start with bigger number.

-Interviewing is an art and can be taught. Researches can learn techniques n skills of interviewing.

-Use semi structured interview is recommended.

- You must have pilot interviews and tape it to tryout your questions and ensure that people understand your questions and to get some practice in interviewing.

Tips

• Listen more n talk less (active listening)
  
• tolerate silence
• follow up n don't interrupt
• follow your hunches
• explore n probe

3 levels of listening

• listen to the substance
• listen to the inner voice (reflect awareness of audience)
• be conscious with body language n b sensitive to participant's energy level

Validity & reliability of the research instrument

Speaker: Prof Dr Mohd Sahandri Gani Hamzah from UPM
Date: 20 June 2009
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Warwick and Linninger (1975) '2 basic goals in questionnaire design

1. to obtain info relevant to the purposes of the survey.
   
2. to collect this info with maximal reliability and validity.

- Validity involves the accuracy of the instrument.
- send to expert for approval (at least 5) and need to carry pilot study to test the reliability of the instrument.

3 basic approaches (Mason & Bramble, 1989)
- content validity
- construct validity
- criterion-related validity