Questionaire

Well done for completing your homework set about Delia Smith and her views on chicken farming.

Would you agree or disagree with this statement.

Use the school MLE would make handing in my homework easier.

Agree / Disagree

Please list the reasons that are most important in your decision not to use this to do your homework via the MLE.

Semi Structured interview

You have been kept behind today to discuss your homework and reasons for not completing your homework. Your homework helps to understand classwork and can help you to achieve more During the last series of lessons we have started to use ICT via the school MLE to make homework easier to complete and handin. Link to PLP - personalised learning plan

FAMILY CONSIDERATIONS - BIOGRAPHY

Tell me about your family. What is it like? PROMPTS//:// Who is in your family?

What do your parents do?

HISTORICAL / CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCES OF HOMEWORK

Tell me about your homework in Melior.

Can you tell me about your homework in general.

PROMPTS:How much do you get?

Which Subjects?

What is it that you most like / dislike about your homework?

What type of homework do you get?

What do you use to do your homework?

What was your homework before easter / last week?

PROMPTS: What piece of homework do you remember most?

Can you give me an example of that.

What are your feelings about homework?

PROMPTS: How do you feel when completing homework?

Who helps you with your homework?

PROMPTS: What do they do to help?

Does your dad / mum ask about your homework?

Who reminds you to do your homework?

USE OF ICT

Tell me about you use of computers

PROMPTS: How often do you use them?

Where?

What do you do on them?

What other subjects give you homework on computers / internet?

Are you good at using computers?

How do you know this?

Tell me about computers in your house

PROMPTS: How often do you use computers?

When do you use computers?

Where do you use computers?

What do you do on your computers?

PREPARATION FOR HOMEWORK TASK What did you do to be able to do your homework on the computer / Internet?

PROMPTS: Did you find it easy to follow lessons in the classroom?

What is the MLE?

Tell me about how it works? What did you have to do to get onto the forum?

Why did we do this?

Do you feel that the school website / MLE can help you to complete your homework?

THE HOMEWORK TASK

Tell me about what happened after you were set your Geography homework before easter.

PROMPTS: What did you do after it was set?

How did you know what to do?

What stopped you doing the homework?

What target would you set to be able to complete the task.


 * Detail probes:**
 * //When// did that happen?
 * //Who// else was involved?
 * //Where// were you during that time?
 * //What// was your involvement in that situation?
 * //How// did that come about?
 * //Where// did it happen?
 * //How// did you //feel// about that


 * Elaboration probes**


 * Would you elaborate on that?
 * Could you say some more about that?
 * That's helpful. I'd appreciate if you could give me more detail.
 * I'm beginning to get the picture: but some more examples might help.

END

write down your impressions

Why? References

Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (2008) Semi-structured interviews. Retrived 23rd April 2009 from
http://manual.recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Semi-structured_interviews Transcript

See Denscombe for Transcript idea

Recording Machine - Phone

Contact with emotions and feelings.

http://www.sociology.org.uk/methfi.pdf

Waikato Management School http://wms-soros.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/NR/rdonlyres/em25kkojrnxofpq3j7avsnl46vkmera63kk2s6nd5ey2pypoxs32ne7dykntjde4u2qhffhpol6bzi/Interviewguidelines.pdf
 * Zorn, T Designing and Conducting Semi-Structured Interviews for Research**