OMG!

OH MY GOD! i talked with this one psychology professor yesterday for one hour, and one hour today with another teacher... and I learned more in those TWO HOURS than in the last TWO MONTHS!! WHY DID I WAIT???? note to self: if i don't find what i need right away, i shouldn't try to play smart and to figure it out by myself, this is a WASTE OF TIME! yesterday, this one teacher showed me how to work with constructs, how to calculate the reliability of the thing, how to do a meaningful pilot study, and today, the guy read my questionnaire and talked about each question, one by one, told me what worked and what didn't, told me about some problems, gave me some good suggestions, talked about statistics, explained the stuff i didn't understand (why i should want a normal distribution, for example, and why i could use ANOVAs instead of Chi square analyses even though i've learned that i shouldn't, and other stuff i could use, and how to do the factor analysis for my pilot), and i just feel like that's it, i know how to do the damn thing! those two teachers have been soooooo kind and helpful and patient, and they both said i could go and talk to them again this summer... wow, what a relief!!!!!

so:
#1.1: send the constructs + questions to aya, george, lia, and paul so they can give me new questions
#1.2: finish the student questionnaire (one for pilot, one for real)
#1.3: rewrite the teacher+ administrator questionnaires
#1.4: go talk to those two psyc teachers before doing the pilot
#2: find more IEPs, i saw that the return rate is about 20% so if i have only 20 potential participating schools, that's not going to work!
#3.1: find a school where i can do the pilot; i think it could be anywhere, since i won't do the pre+post
#3.2: DO the pilot ASAP!
#3.3: calculate the reliability of the whole thing
#3.4: rewrite the questionnaire based on results + rework teacher/ administrator questionnaires
#4: send letters to all IEPs
#5: find out about most spoken languages

When i'm done with that, the whole thing will be almost done! hah!!!

ok, here i go... #1.1 .... yes yes...