I’ve been struggling with thinking of ways to group this data. I’ve also been struggling with getting up in the morning. This morning, my alarm went off at its usual 5:50. I snoozed once, then turned it off. I started thinking about the adjective data again as I faded back and forth from consciousness. I was thinking, how do I axially code (group) this data . . . I know I have some creative behaviors and I know I have some work-ethic ideas. And then it hit me . . . work ethic is like task commitment a la Renzulli’s (1986) three-ring conception of giftedness. Perhaps I can categorize the data into these three groups.

And so it has been done (thus far). I am not surprised to see that the high achieving students describe their projects with more “creativity” words, while the low achieving students use more “task commitment” words.

I think this grouping will be an interesting way to look at the data (perhaps a x2 is in the works?)