What Underachieving
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
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Middle School Students Believe Motivates them to Learn |
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Chapter 1: The Challenge to Educate Everyone Chapter 2: A Review of Literature Chapter 3: Methods Chapter 4: The Results Transferability Transcript Quotes Participants What Motivates? Chapter 5: Discussion |
A Note About Transcript Quotes Interviewees and I discovered, when we read their transcripts, that spoken language does not follow the same patterns as written language, and that spoken language often seems much less clear when it is reviewed in print than when it was originally stated in conversation. Participants often misspeak in ways that meaning is clear during conversation, but confusing when reading the printed transcript. Several participants were even concerned about "sounding stupid" when they reviewed the transcript. Exact quotes from the interview transcripts, however, are vital to the rich descriptions of case studies, since they preserve the participant’s exact words for the reader. Reading those transcript quotes aloud can sometimes help make their meaning clearer. For this document, I did occasionally edit quotes from interview transcripts for clarity. Those edits were limited to omitting irrelevant opening phrases, false starts to sentences, or the researcher’s side comments, and changing verb tense when it didn’t match the rest of the sentence. Edits were made only when not doing so would interfere with the meaning of the passage, and were never made when they would change the content, context, or meaning of the participant’s words. When a quote includes an interaction between the participant and me, my words are indicated by a leading "R:" (researcher) and the participant’s words are indicated either by a leading "S:" (student) or "T:" (teacher). No leading indication is used if the quote reflects the words of the participant only. Unlike quotes from journal articles and books, ellipses are used in these transcript quotes to indicate that the speaker paused briefly instead of part of the quote being omitted. |
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