Transcript the Contributed Poster - PER

Discussion:
Methodologies for
video-based research in PER
Rachel E. Scherr
AAPT Summer National Meeting
July 21, 2016
Presenters are extended family
Kuo
Gupta
Conlin
Harrer
& Flood (
)
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What is video-recorded?
INTERVIEWS FOCUS GROUPS CLASSROOMS
(Kuo)
(Gupta)
(Harrer, Conlin)
Is video needed?
Would field notes, an observation protocol,
or audio be any different?
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What is analyzed?
TRANSCRIPT-PLUS
INTERACTION
(Kuo, Gupta)
(Harrer, Conlin)
Gestures/body language
supplement transcript
Embodied interaction in
a material setting is the
primary data
Janine not only says “You
can’t sit by this dumpster”
but also mimes waste
worker actions (Gupta)
In IRE, the kinds of
responses available to
participants are formatted
by prior conversational
moves (Harrer)
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What is analyzed?
ETHICAL/MORAL CONTENT
(Conlin, Gupta)
Emotional tone may inform analysis
Janine makes a positive evaluation of waste workers (Gupta)
Visible social identities may inform analysis
(and invisible ones may not)
Girl is not credited for idea she helps construct (Conlin)
Race and gender may bias researcher analysis (Gupta)
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What is the role of this research?
Kuo: “Interviews are the seeds that grow into larger
endeavors.”
• Could large-N research be the cute baby, and
interviews be the powerful and sophisticated adult?
Gupta: “We want [people] to be mindful of the moral
stances they might be taking.”
• Does video specially stimulate our conscience?
For better or for worse?
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What is the role of this research?
Conlin: “An analysis that categorizes thousands of
events is only as meaningful as each single event”
• How do we make meaning of events for which
evidence may be socially suppressed?
Harrer: “Conversations in classrooms are sequential
and self-organizing.”
• How much free choice do students have in
classroom discourse?
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