Observation …for dr. rick’

Before implementing changes, you should accurately determine the
current condition. This research requires observing people and how
they interact with their environment. This assignment is developed
to give you the observational experience, opportunities to document
what you are seeing and reporting your discoveries in a formal
paper.I’ve given you an example of how I did my observational
experience when I was a graduate student taking a qualitative
research methods course.Observational Exercise• The objective of this exercise is not to become a participant
observer – that is unrealistic for the time and settings allowed –
but to experience the simple (or not so simple) reality of being an
observer. The challenge here is primarily to observe, as carefully
as possible, some setting of your choosing. I will ask you to take
notes and to be attentive to what you write down, and what you do
not write down. What does your lens catch? What does it miss?• The exercise: Identify a scene to observe (picking from any
number of settings, activities, encounters, exchanges) in which you
must primarily rely on sight, not sound, for data. Spend at least
an hour observing. Take careful notes on what you see.• Then, put together a short write up of your experience – no
more than 4 (double-spaced, 12-point font, ragged right margin)
pages to describe what you saw. In this report, try to draw from
the directly observable data to also interpret, speculate, and
extrapolate from the scene. Make sure you distinguish carefully
what you saw from what you think might be happening, i.e. your
interpretation or speculation.• What can you can infer from people’s appearances, or from
their observable behaviors? Do not try to exhaustively cover
everything you see; a segment of the action will serve as well as a
“whole scene.”• Include up to a half page to report what you learned about the
process of gathering data and writing your observations. How would
you equip yourself to do it again? Observational Exercise • The
objective of this exercise is not to become a participant observer
– that is unrealistic for the time and settings allowed – but to
experience the simple (or not so simple) reality of being an
observer. The challenge here is primarily to observe, as carefully
as possible, some setting of your choosing. I will ask you to take
notes and to be attentive to what you write down, and what you do
not write down. What does your lens catch? What does it miss? • The
exercise: Identify a scene to observe (picking from any number of
settings, activities, encounters, exchanges) in which you must
primarily rely on sight, not sound, for data. Spend at least an
hour observing. Take careful notes on what you see. • Then, put
together a short write up of your experience – no more than 3
(double-spaced, 12-point font) pages to describe what you saw. In
this report, try to draw from the directly observable data to also
interpret, speculate, and extrapolate from the scene. Make sure you
distinguish carefully what you saw from what you think might be
happening, i.e. your interpretation or speculation. • What can you
can infer from people’s appearances, or from their observable
behaviors? Do not try to exhaustively cover everything you see; a
segment of the action will serve as well as a “whole scene.” •
Include up to a half page to report what you learned about the
process of gathering data and writing your observations. How would
you equip yourself to do it again?