I am currently doing great with my research process, I have conducted two interviews and began splicing and editing one of them for the multimedia project. One thing I need to make a point of is taking field notes. It is sometimes difficult to find field sites or areas where it is comfortable to take field notes as students studying usually isnt an open invitation for you to sit and stare at them. However, I am making a point to try and take some field notes in the classroom setting even though the interviews will be the main basis of what my project will ultimately be. The multimedia portion of my project is coming along well, I am currently at around four minutes of edited footage, this material will be used to turn in for my WA4.
I am currently using four main codes:
STR-OTH-stress caused by others or outside effects
STR-YOU-stress caused by pressure put on oneself
RL-literacy used as a reminder to reduce stress
ORG-organization methods used to relieve stress
I plan to expand codes for the project as I continue to review my research journals as well as compile my research portfolio. These codes help to coin common ideas that are expressed and reoccuring throughout my project as a whole. These codes will definitely help me to identify and analyze the findings of the study as they will relate the separate interviews on common ideas and themes that run between them. Thus far my data is definitely in support of the fact that honors students feel like they are expected to attain higher levels of success and therefore experience stress from both themselves as well as outside sources. These outside sources mostly include family and professors. Trying to please these people is where their selective types of literacy come into play.
The above is my old code book, I have recently added a few more codes which I will detail below. The thing about my research project is that my codes are specific about a broad topic, thus I may not have a need for as many codes as some of the code books I have seen in others projects.
P-influence and stress from life characters of the participants past
C-cultural influence, societal views on stress and failure affect the participants level of stress
