9.24 Research questions

1. What did the group do? What does this behavior show about the class culture?

2. What do these notes show about the way beginning ethnographers take notes? Jottings, head notes, remembered + observations?  What does the teacher need to give moe support for?

3. What do these notes suggest about how we might create notes for our research? What kinds of notes would be useful/  What kinds not so useful?

4. What forms seemed most effective for each of the 4 different kinds of notes?  What ws the purp0se for each form?  And which kinds of notes best met that purpose?

5. Which organization structures supported strong note taking?  Which strategies worked in the different kinds of notes?

6. When did note takers tend to look close in – and when far back?  How did the note taker’perspective shape his/her notes (the details s/he wrote)?  How did decisions about taking a close in/far back perspective affect the usefulness/effectivness of the notes in term of providing evidence? offering generalizations? 

7. What are the relationships between the content/detailed observations and the generalizations? Is there enough detail to support the generalization?  If not – what would suggest to help a note taker to write stronger notes?

8. Is there bias in these notes?  What looks like bias?  What kinds of moves are dangerous for including bias?