Update.

I'm the kind of person who isn't good at working with others - I've always been the one person in the group who ends up doing most of the work...probably because I'm so controlling. At any rate, this makes working on a research team difficult.
Our research is focused on the rationalization of academic misconduct. Basically, we want to see which forms of cheating are found to be the most acceptable & what the thought processes are behind cheating in the first place. As with any research, we have to do a series of pre-tests to work out all of the survey's kinks & whatnot. This is usually easy, but not this time!
Our first administration was to a remedial math class because we figured if freshmen could understand the directions, then the upperclassmen should definitely understand them as well! The class didn't get it. Not at all. It's so annoying because we didn't know whether or not they really didn't understand the directions or they were just too lazy to pay attention to what they were doing. I have a feeling it was the latter. At any rate, we had to do another administration.
I waited & waited, & waited some more for the other members of the team to administer like they said they would because I wanted to begin actual administrations before Thanksgiving Break...preferably the second week in November. True to form, I became so frustrated that I told everyone I'd just administer in one of my English classes...it wasn't a lower-level course, but there were a variety of English majors with a wide age-range. It took forever to get that administration done because the guy who had the revised version of the measure wouldn't get back to me! This is why I have issues with group work. Someone always drops the ball. I was finally able to get a copy of the measure after I bitched & bitched about it & administered the Wednesday before we went on break.
I was happy with the results...but some of the other members thought they wanted to know more about which forms of academic misconduct were more acceptable, so now we have to change it again. This sucks big time & is really beginning to piss me off because the team decided to add something to the measure that I suggested to have on there for the second pre-test!
So here we are, at the beginning of December & we are still pre-testing. I don't know whether or not we'll be finished with administrations in time to present in April...


I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!