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Barton, Keith C. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
Elicitation techniques are a category of research tasks that use visual, verbal, or written stimuli to encourage participants to talk about their ideas. These tasks are particularly useful for exploring topics that may be difficult to discuss in formal interviews, such as those that involve sensitive issues or rely on tacit knowledge. Elicitation…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Dialogs (Language), Interviews, Research Methodology
Monaghan, John; Ozmantar, Mehmet Fatih – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
What is involved in consolidating a new mathematical abstraction? This paper examines the work of one student who was working on a task designed to consolidate two recently constructed absolute function abstractions. The study adopts an activity theoretic model of abstraction in context. Selected protocol data are presented. The initial state of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Skills, Task Analysis, Protocol Analysis
Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1986
In order to study two aspects of the composing process, goal-setting and risk-taking, English and reading graduate students were given a set of readings on the topic of introspection and asked to write weekly papers in response. The papers were summaries, reaction statements, synthesis essays, and position papers, and students kept ongoing…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Objectives