We Have Plenty of Anecdotal Evidence

4 thoughts on “We Have Plenty of Anecdotal Evidence”

1. lori f

   October 24, 2012 at 8:35 pm

   Our school is becoming increasingly “data-driven” as well. But sometimes anecdotal evidence concurs with data.

   Kids feel like they are learning more with CI classes. I could give anecdotes about this parent and that parent who are quite pleased that their children are starting to freely use Spanish at home.

   Hard data would show that for the first time in a very long time (decades, possibly) enough students at our school have signed up to take Spanish IV that it will be offered as a real class rather than an independent study by 1-3 students. My students made this happen. I was just a bystander as they recruited enough students (at our school, you need 15 students to have a class listed) to make it happen.

   Numbers are data, right? Data is acceptable evidence, right? CI is right, right?

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2. Sabrina Janczak

   October 24, 2012 at 8:51 pm

   Lori, you are so right. Isn’t anecdotal evidence used quite a bit in qualitative research?
   Someone needs to do some action research on the successes associated with CI in comparison with grammar driven teaching. May be one day , when we have time…..

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   1. Chris

      October 25, 2012 at 6:34 pm

      My Master’s Project, which I’ll be doing this spring, is going to be a comparison of TPRS with traditional instruction.

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      1. Diane N.

         October 25, 2012 at 6:57 pm

         What a great project – I hope you’ll tell us more about it later.

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