'Steady progress' is a term used to describe what is happening when nothing appears to be happening, but you're not slipping backwards... a term good for morale!
At the moment I'm reading Czaja & Blair's Designing surveys, an excellent introduction to effective survey design and question construction. I've also started reading through articles relating to primary research instruments for assessing formation, a largely fruitless search (with the exception of Ma's "The Christian college experience and the development of spirituality among students" in Christian Higher Education 2(4), 2003).
I emailed Stella Ma and received a helpful reply; her dissertation (which I had to purchase!) includes the research instrument.
My supervisors have given me the 'thumbs up' for my new methodological proposal, which includes designing a quantitative instrument as a highlight of my research activity.
My activity this week has actually been on an invited address for next week's Ascilite conference, here in Auckland, which required me to draw on some of my e-learning work. There are 405 delegates at last count, and it has been a real challenge putting a presentation together that might be worthy of such a gathering! Still, I think I have it sorted now.
On with the PhD!
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