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- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson bookmarked Why do people quit the PhD? April 4, 2014 - 12:47pm

This is a typically very thoughtful post (with data!) from the The Thesis Whisperer blog, that Barbie Bruce shared with me. A must read for those at any stage of the doctoral jounrey.

http://thesiswhisperer.com/2014/03/26/why-do-people-quit-the-phd/
- Colin Madland@colinma25
Colin Madland commented on the file Problem with importing survey data to SPSS January 13, 2014 - 10:07am

Hi Sofia, I responded by email as well, but thought I'd post this here for the benefit of more people who will most certainly encounter this problem... When I exported my data, I first sent it to MS Excel so that I could get rid of all the...
- Sofia Nteliopoulou@sofiant
Sofia Nteliopoulou uploaded the file Problem with importing survey data to SPSS January 13, 2014 - 3:12am

Hi everyone I have already exported to SPSS my survey data [.sps & .dat files] from Limesurvey and now I am trying to import and run the script from SPSS but unsuccessfully. I followed all the instructions from the Limesurvey help...
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- Colin Madland@colinma25
  
  Colin Madland January 13, 2014 - 10:07am
  Hi Sofia,
  I responded by email as well, but thought I'd post this here for the benefit of more people who will most certainly encounter this problem...
  When I exported my data, I first sent it to MS Excel so that I could get rid of all the extra rows that come from LimeSurvey. Then, fter I had cleaned it up, I loaded it into spss and it worked very nicely.
  
  Also, the first error in the SPSS log indicates that you have more variables than you are allowed with the student version of spss. You are only allowed to load 50 variables into any one .SAV file.
  
  To get around this, I had to load only those variables that I wanted to test into an individual SAV file. So if you have 75 variables and you want to compare #1-25 with #30-40, you will have to create a file just for that comparison. It is a real pain, but it worked for me because my quan analyses were quite basic.
  
  Depending on what you want to do with your data, you may be able to just use excel...it isn't as pretty or easy, but it can work.
  
  Colin
- Alexander Amigud@alexanderam
Alexander Amigud replied on the discussion topic Great 3 Minute Thesis Contest November 29, 2013 - 9:25am

Hi Everyone, I was reading the competition rules and I thought the event format of a live student debate falls more into traditional territory rather than a typical (read asynchronous) communication environment. The latter is a bit more...
- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson bookmarked Video: Deciding on a career inside or outside of academia October 23, 2013 - 1:33pm

Great video arguing if tenure track academic career is the best pursuit and options beyond that for doctoral grads.

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/video-deciding-on-a-career-inside-or-outside-academia.aspx
- Barbie Bruce@barbarabr30
Barbie Bruce replied on the discussion topic Great 3 Minute Thesis Contest August 2, 2013 - 12:22pm
- Barbie Bruce@barbarabr30
Barbie Bruce commented on a bookmark Thesis Whsiperer June 6, 2013 - 11:58am

I highly recommend the Thesis Whisperer site - it has a lot of useful information on writing, reading and not getting too bogged down in the thesis stuff.
- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson bookmarked Thesis Whsiperer June 5, 2013 - 1:50am

Inger Mewburn, the Australian owner of the Thesis Whsiperer - "like the horse whisper, but with more pages", has complied some of her posts into a self published book - Taming the Thesis, which she sells on Amazon for $3.99. She talks about the...

http://thesiswhisperer.com/2012/09/27/a-shameless-plug/
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- Barbie Bruce@barbarabr30
  
  Barbie Bruce June 6, 2013 - 11:58am
  
  I highly recommend the Thesis Whisperer site - it has a lot of useful information on writing, reading and not getting too bogged down in the thesis stuff.
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron commented on a bookmark The Thesis Whisperer writes a book June 5, 2013 - 12:57am

I love the Thesis Whisperer. I've never met Inger Mewburn, who edits and moderates the site as well as being the compiler of the book (not Megan McPherson, I think!) but she is a friend of a friend and comes highly recommended. This is a great site...
- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson bookmarked The Thesis Whisperer writes a book June 5, 2013 - 12:19am

Megan McPherson, the Australian owner of the Thesis Whsiperer - "like the horse whisper, but more pages", has complied some of her posts into a self published book - Taming the Thesis, which she sells on Amazon for $3.99. She talks about the results...

http://thesiswhisperer.com/2012/09/27/a-shameless-plug/
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- Jon Dron@jond
  
  Jon Dron June 5, 2013 - 12:57am
  I love the Thesis Whisperer. I've never met Inger Mewburn, who edits and moderates the site as well as being the compiler of the book (not Megan McPherson, I think!) but she is a friend of a friend and comes highly recommended.
  This is a great site for any and all research students or, for that matter, anyone engaged in a bit of research activity. Lots of delightfully presented useful advice, and quite an active community around it.
- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson added a new discussion topic Great 3 Minute Thesis Contest April 10, 2013 - 2:36pm

As a welcome back to our 806 seminar series, on Sept 25, 2013 via on Adobe Connect, the CDE will be hosting a GREAT 3 MINUTE THESIS contest. You can see the details of the contest (from SFU)...
- Kathy Wang@Kathywang
Kathy Wang replied on the discussion topic Education as Provincial vs Federal Responsibility December 6, 2012 - 2:37pm

Very interesting. Several days ago, I did an investigation about who is responsible for the distance stuff training all around the word. Until that time, I knew that AU is governed by Alberta province! I used to think that AU is response by Canadian...
- Mary McNabb@marymc2
Mary McNabb replied on the discussion topic Education as Provincial vs Federal Responsibility November 26, 2012 - 7:33am

I've had similar experiences, Susan and I can appreciate your thoughts on being brought up to provincial standards for each province. A friend of mine had an M. Ed. from OISE, applied for a job in a tiny (150 student) K-12 school in very rural...
- Susan Bainbridge@susanba72
Susan Bainbridge replied on the discussion topic Education as Provincial vs Federal Responsibility November 25, 2012 - 1:31pm

Hi Mary, I experienced Provincial 'protectionism' over education first-hand during the early part of my career. I obtained my initial degree and teacher training in Ontario. Then I moved around the country teaching in 5 different provinces and...
- Mary McNabb@marymc2
Mary McNabb added a new discussion topic Education as Provincial vs Federal Responsibility November 23, 2012 - 7:30am

Terry's comment or more accurately, lament about education being a responsibility of each province during our Wed. 806 chat, provoked several questions. I thought back to the enthusiastic co-operation between universities and schools in...
- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson bookmarked Invitation to NVivo 9 Brown Bag Live Webinars January 11, 2012 - 3:53pm

Invitation to NVivo 9 Brown Bag Live Webinars – The free one hour webinar will demonstrate the software’s features. Register for a date below. Please forward to interested colleagues. Dr. Guenther Krueger from Simon Fraser...

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/787833210
- Terry Anderson@terrya
Terry Anderson bookmarked List of Open Access Ed tech and Dist Educ journals May 6, 2011 - 3:43pm

I'm a huge supported of publishing only in Open Access Journals. My friend George Veletsianos ahs created an editable Google Sreadsheet list of these jounrals at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tfNCoAf3QgerKQnhd0ZgqTg#gid=0 It provides...

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tfNCoAf3QgerKQnhd0ZgqTg#gid=0

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