Analysis on Course

The last 2 weeks have been reasonably productive. The spreadsheet for analysing the diaries against the different variables has worked well and I have further refined it so that I can drill down further to look at times by total for the week, weekdays, weekends as well as by day. I have also refined it so that I can look at specific groups of students and if necessary to exclude students who answer Yes to specific questions.

I have identified those activities and variables that I want to examine in the first round and I have almost completed their analysis. The output gives me an indication as to whether there are significant differences and the second round will be to drill deeper and to compare against the student profiles. All being well this will be completed by the end of December. At the end of this week we have the results board for the target students so it will be interesting to add in their overall result to the profiles.

I am taking the first week in January off work and will use this to crack on with the writing. I have already set up the chapters in Word so feel more or less prepared! Also early in January I will be seeing my supervisor before he jets off to Singapore and Hong Kong for his sabbatical. There really is no rest for the wicked. At the moment I'm not sure that I have time for Christmas but no doubt time will be found!