J'ai des Questions...

Elizabeth:

1)  Can you describe the process through which you chose your topic and methodology?  When did you think you knew what you wanted to do?  And how long from then was it until you finished your proposal?  Did you know that you wanted to conduct research about IEP meetings and then find that DAM worked well for the research you wanted to do?  Or were you interested in DP/DAM before you chose your topic?

2)  I see that your study is changing based on participant recruitment.  Can you tell us a little bit about that?  Why did you have difficulty recruiting high schoolers but not elementary students?

3)  Can you tell us a little bit about the participants you have been able to recruit?  (how many participants?  how many schools?  how many different disabilities?  etc.)

4)  I see that your timeline says you should be finishing up data collection this month.  Are you on target to do so?  Have you had to make any adjustments along the way?

5)  If you were to start all over again (with comps, prospectus, etc.)  is there anything you would change?


Joshua:

1)  Do you think that there were any changes between your meetings in 2010-2011 and 2011-2012?  Specifically, do you think that your dissertation research influenced these meeting?  In what ways?

2)  What were you most surprised about in your findings?

3)  Did you share your work with the interns?  How did they respond?  Were they surprised in any ways?

4)  Before beginning your dissertation work, what was your experience with using discourse analysis?

5)  Are you doing any work currently with DART?  Do you think you will continue to use DA as your primary methodology?