3 posts in a day

Final post of today............... I promise.

Have managed to work through fOCUSII - Coding which is actually pretty vital for ED209 TMA02. Was going to start fOCUSII - Reliability and Validity but think I will just read and highlight Book 2 as have wine but not 2.5 hours as suggested. TMA03 is about attachment theory and disturbed and disturbing behaviour so pretty happy about that as is very very interesting.

Summary fOCUSII - Coding:

Observer Drift, Observers see things differently, Categories should be mutually exclusive, 2 types - Event Sampling & Time Sampling, Event sampling requires speach, Interaction Process Analysis (IPA), Bales (1999), 2 classes - task related behaviour and socio-emotional behaviour, Positive Responses, Attempted Answers, Questions, Negative Responses, look for patterns before applying stat tests, relies on judgements, Time sampling, 2 types - One-zero sampling and instantaneous sampling, problems as to when to sample as may miss behaviour or find more than 1.

Disturbed and Disturbing behaviour

ED209 Book 2: Chapter 2 is truely facinating and I find myself trying to classify myself and my friends in to Type A, B, C and D characteristics to see who is most likely to become a serial killer - Only kidding but still very insightful.

Didn't quite manage to finish Chapter 2 as the eyes started to get heavy but will push on with it tonight.

Plan for this week:

fOCUSII Coding and Reliability - Really need to get this done as I am actually behind and it may be needed for TMA02.
ED209 TMA02 - really need to get a move on with this as only have 5 weeks to go which sounds okay but apparently we are actually expected to get as close to the 2,000 word limit.

Very quiet day at work so got roped in to sewing the guys pockets back together to save them looking scruffy urchins. Have been googling stuff for TMA02 and making notes, it has led me to question a fair few parts of Sharon's Study which I hadn't initially though of.

Poker tonight or not????? Questions, questions!!!