Appreciation: Cupcakes

I had data collection at MOE. My RAs and I were given these. What a nice gesture! We really appreciated it. :)

School Break Work

Although it is the one week school break, there is no respite for my research team. We have requests from schools to conduct our data collection during the break. Just today alone, we met with school leaders, HODs, and teachers - 2 interviews and 2 FGDs. 
Going to be a busy week, school break or no school break.

First Team Visit

To provide support (moral and physical) to my research assistants, I went with them for this school visit. A milestone for our research team. :) We had a debriefing at a nearby cafe, Penny University, followed by nice lunch celebration. 

Online Forum

Today is the start of our 2nd phase of data collection for the entire week. Hoping that we will get good responses from teachers in the online forum. :)

Online Data Collection III

In a few minutes, our online data collection will be over. :) 
It has been an interesting experience. I think there is definitely room for improvement and we will look into it. 

Online Data Collection II

"Business" has been slow. :( Not many participants have logged in for the online discussions. Either they are very busy or not used to this type of data collection format. We'll monitor the situation...

Online Data Collection

I am excited and nervous. Tomorrow we are starting our online data collection for the entire week. I just hope everyone (100 participants) is able to log into their CourseSites accounts without any issues and begin their discussions in the online forum. 
Fingers crossed! :)