Video Coding

We started work on the coding of the lessons for feedback and a fruitful discussion on refining our coding scheme.

Coding, Cake and Cuppa

Coding my data while enjoying a Starbucks Local Delights, Ovaltine Chocolate Cake with a cuppa. 

Camaraderie

Today, we had a really long work meeting (close to 6.5 hours), doing some recoding. Although it was really tiring work (recoding 152 projects), we did it! The camaraderie really helped in making the daunting work bearable. I am really glad to be a part of this team. :)

Data Entry

The coding exercise was completed last week. We managed to receive about 82% agreement between the 3 coders for the consensus coding. That is pretty good result. :) Now I am left with the data entry for the individual coding. I should be able to finish the remaining 15 schools' artifacts by middle of this week.

Coding Exercise II

It's the second day. Things are going very smoothly. The teachers were coding faster as they have found a common understanding of the coding dimensions. While the teachers were coding, I started to do the data entry. Might as well start now as there will be well over 1500 artifact codes to be keyed in once the coding exercise is completed...

Coding Exercise

The coding exercise is on this week. We have recruited 3 former teachers to rate the quality of the artifacts we have collected from schools. I went through with the teachers the dimensions in the coding scheme before they started their coding of the artifacts and I stayed with the teachers for most part of the day in case they have questions. Being the first day, the coding was slow as teachers needed to find, among themselves, a common understanding of the coding dimensions.

It is going to be a grueling week. As it is, I am already exhausted just on the first day. :P

Checklist

Coding scheme - ready :)
Coding sheet - ready :)
Coding process - ready :)
Artifact tagging - On-going :(

The coding exercise will be held next week from Monday to Friday. All systems are ready to go, well almost, not all the artifacts have been tagged yet. But I am sure the artifacts will be tagged and ready to be coded when the time comes. Fingers and toes crossed lol. :P

Exhausted!

I have been working on some videos since Wednesday, helping to code them for another colleague to get inter-rater reliability. As it was the first time I have seen the videos, each 1 hr video has taken me at least 1.5 hours to code, sometimes having to play back to re-look. It is mentally exhausting as well as slow going. :( I would love to work faster than that.

The best time I found to code them was really, really late at night when my girls were asleep because then they couldn't ask me questions about the videos, lol. Such as last night, or rather early this morning, I coded 2 videos between 12:30am to 3:15am. This morning, I managed to code another video while the girls were in pre-school. However, I had to leave for office before they returned home. I got to code 1 more video at work before it got too distracting with the various phones ringing and such. I took off again to find another place to work. Finally, I ended up at Starbucks, lol. Surprisingly, it was rather quiet. I coded a 5th video. :) I was really pleased with myself and left for home. The coding really knocked me out mentally. I fell asleep for more than two hours, only to wake up at 8pm. Now I have energy to work through tonight again for the last 5 vidoes, lol.

PS. I am lucky that I have a boss who is very understanding and doesn't mind where I work. She even said I could work at the beach as long as I could get my work done. Shall try that one day, hahaha. :P