Tuesday, May 1
7:30 am
It is +5 °C, with a high forecast of +12 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today A mix of sun and cloud. Becoming cloudy near noon with 30 percent chance of showers late this afternoon. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40 increasing to 60 gusting to 80 this morning. High 12. UV index 3 or moderate.
Tonight Cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers early this evening. Periods of rain beginning this evening. Wind west 60 km/h gusting to 80 diminishing to 30 gusting to 50 this evening. Low plus 3.
8:00 am Musings
My two priorities are flipped today. I really want to finish updating the April web pages. Then I will take a coulee walk as part of my fitness routine. Once I get the web pages completed I will try to get my head around future activities.
12:05 PM Technology
The web pages for April are now complete!
1:50 PM Life
I am feeling alert and energized. Maybe because I have finally finished bringing these web pages up to date. Or maybe my fitness routines are beginning to pay dividends. Or maybe it's just my imagination. But I am back from a coulee walk. The air was rather brisk: the temperature was only +6 C and there were a couple of rain showers thrown in which helped keep me cooled off.
2:00 PM Musings
While walking my thoughts turned to research. Honest! I was thinking of the article by Cronbach that he wrote on the 20th anniversary of an earlier article he wrote on coefficient alpha and test reliabilities. From there it was a small leap to wondering if the Fitzgeralds' longitudinal study of ISP mathematics programs and visualization/verbalization profiles looked at the stability of the visualization/verbalization scores. I now need to read both the Cronbach article and the Fitzgeralds study more carefully. Also, I would like to see if I can browse the table of contents of Psychometrika online. I just wanted to capture these thoughts before I lose them. This may also mean that I need to add another category to my list of activities: research. But not to panic.