Wednesday, October 05, 2005

science fair project: data collection

Research question: what's a normal time frame for responding to students' written work?

In the interest of science, here is my response time log for 10 drafts of Assignment 1:

Draft 1:
1:26 pm-1:37 pm (10 min).
Note: Talked to K. Lacey about exhibitionist nature of blogging while calculating draft grade.

Draft 2
1:40-1:47.4 (7.5 min)
Note: Kim made me a champion bracelet for beating above response time record. How she made the bracelet is, telling me I could take the sleeve off her coffee and wear it. Am blinging.

Draft 3
1:52-2:00 (8 min)
Note: appended files contribute to slow response time.

Draft 4
2:05-2:12 (7 min)
Note: Nicole's story about 2 girls washing their feet in the Writing Center bathroom sink looped surreally over my written comments.

Draft 5
2:17-2:23.5 (6.5 min)
Note: Have effectively turned task of responding to student writing into a computer game

Draft 6
2:29-2:36 (7 min)
Note: Faint background noise
"milkshake"
"feet!"
"DIA"
Am lost in super mario comment land.

got dizzy and lay down
2:36 pm to 3:23 pm
(normal for me with hypnotic experiences)

Drafts 7 and 8 (back to back)
3:27pm -3:43pm (15 min)

4:02
Exquisitely beautiful girl enters Writing Center: grading stops
Hilary finds inner strenght for peer tutoring

Draft 9
4:04-4:12 (8 min)
He thought that if he just kept looking at you, an appointment on Friday would open up.

Draft 10
4:15-4:21 (6 min)
computers+writing=Bad News