ARP | Action Plan & Tools

Initial list
  • Ethics form
  • Draft activity plan/brief
  • Run a pilot with a partner
  • Get feedback
  • Run the first activity with a tutor
  • Feedback from a tutor on how the session was run
  • Refine activity
  • Run subsequent interviews and activity
  • Capture outputs
  • Reflect on sessions
  • Collate feedback
  • Plan next steps
  • Presentation slides
TOOLS used
miro |voice memo | word transcription | excel project planning

I used MIRO as a working document to capture ideas (structured and unstructured) and as a place to try to visualise findings, processes and also resources.

Sam Barber Action Research Project | MIRO (click to view MIRO board)

Capturing resources on MIRO
Action Plan

In addition to the list above I have also been using an Excel project plan.

Additional planning outline
recording & Transcription

Have also been exploring voice-to-text transcription services and which may work most effectively for these sessions – from Simon Says to using record on Word – which is what I’ve decided to trial for my first session. I will have my ipad open by the side and will supplement this with a voice recording app on my phone to ensure I don’t lose any content or can check back with the voice recording if the text recording is unclear on Word.

UPDATE on recording & TRANSCRIPTION

Transcription proved to be slightly more problematic than I had anticipated.

After trialing Otter.ai / Recording on Word in the interviews, plus several other options I eventually used an App called Voice Memo which I could use on my phone.

I could then upload the voice recording to Word on the web and it would then transcribe those voice recordings to a Word document. This was free of charge and worked really well.

Testing the session plan!

I spent an hour this afternoon with my very patient partner, as he role-played being a UAL tutor. My main objective was to run through how the research intervention would work in practice, could I use the data the way I thought, how ‘clunky’ would it feel, would the way I had designed the flow of the session facilitate effective discussion and also the questions lead to interesting insights.

The question set is open and I have the first interview tomorrow so can learn again where the conversations take us. The draft action plan and questions I designed generally worked ok however the flow was not optimal so have reorganized the structure of the session moving questions around and creating a clearer plan for me to work from during the sessions.

draft guide for the intervention
Session plan and flow – Action and discussion points

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