Empirical Research Methods III -Process Analysis | WS 23/24

The Empirical Research Methods III - Process analysis course is a 3rd-semester elective advanced seminar. You will find the material to read and the exercises on Moodle. Ask your teacher to register you on the Moodle course.

Learning Goals / Competencies

In the seminar Empirical Research Methods III - Process analysis, the following learning goals are pursued

• Students understand the rationale of and review typical studies involving process analyses.
• Students learn how to conduct and interpret multimodal process analyses with a focus on content/discourse analysis.
• Students familiarize themselves with relevant concepts of learning processes

Module Content

The seminar Empirical Research Methods III; Process analysis focuses on

- Theoretical background of argumentative knowledge construction, and Analysis of argumentative knowledge construction

• Unit of analysis
• Sampling
• Segmentation
• Coding
• Reliability
• Validity
• Think-aloud protocols
• Automatic discourse analysis
• Multimodal analysis
• Motivation and emotion

- Exemplary studies building on process analyses - Related concepts and foci

• Knowledge convergence
• Transactivity
• Embodied cognition