Procedure
This data collection method asks participants to verbalize their thought processes in real time as they work through a task or problem, giving researchers a direct glimpse into their strategies.
What is a think-aloud protocol?
This term refers to when an ethnographer loses their objective perspective, adopting the customs and behavior of the group they are studying.
What is "going native"?
This data collection method seeks the conceptual roots of students' ideas
What are clinical interviews?
In this approach, researchers immerse themselves in the participants' natural environment over an extended period to observe cultural practices and everyday behavior.
What is ethnography?
Humans may not have access to their own mental processes, posing challenges to the validity of these types of interviews.
What are introspective and retrospective interviews?
This method can result in new insights into students' strategies, approaches, and misconceptions.
What is Think Aloud protocol?
A method of data collection that requires standardized tasks, immediate interpretation, ongoing hypothesizing, and improvised questioning.
What are clinical interviews?
Ericsson and Simon (1993) claimed that short-term memory cannot alter or access the central processor, therefore "cognitive processes are not modified" by this
What is a Think Aloud protocol?
(or verbalization)
One use of this data collection method in math ed is to gain understanding of cultural influences on development of mathematical knowledge.
What is ethnography?
Leading questions and expressions of affirmation from the researcher pose threats to the validity of this data collection method.
What is a clinical interview?