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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Verbal Protocols"”.
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Understanding strategy utilization during reading comprehension : relations between text type and reading levels using verbal protocols
… a think-aloud methodology. The study examines verbal, retrospective, and recall reports from fifteen seventh-graders of varying reading abilities; good, average, and weaker from one private school in the Midwest. After collecting a total of ninety verbal reports in three sessions, verbal …
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Assessing the creative abilities of primary school children
… were compared with the teachers' assessments. Verbal protocols were taken with a subsample to establish children's strategies whilst working on the TCT-DP. The story-telling technique of creativity assessment was also explored with a further subsample. The results indicated that although …
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Causal attributions for marital separation
… attributions examined came from free-response verbal protocols of explanations for marital separation. The sample comprised 29 males and 33 females, living in Hamilton, New Zealand, all of whom had been physically separated for less than 18 months. Two attribution taxonomies were developed to …
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Reading Process Comparison between Graphic Novel and Traditional Novels
… to a traditional novel through the use of verbal protocols of reading. While reading both the graphic novel and traditional novel the subject used a variety of strategies such as visual cues, inferring, predicting, connecting, questioning, author’s style and rereading. Based on the finding, …
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Descriptions of expert middle school band teachers’ decision-making processes before, during, and after instruction
… observation, participant observation through verbal protocols (i.e., think-aloud and stimulated recall,) and physical artifacts (i.e., written lesson plans, copies of music scores with teachers' annotations, photos and/or diagrams of the classroom environment). Data analysis revealed …
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Assessing the cognitive fit of hypertext-based learning aids for advanced learning in complex and ill-structured domains
… assessed quantitatively and qualitatively using verbal protocol analysis. Data were collected using a set of validated tools that include a test, two cases, a questionnaire, a tracing device, and verbal protocols. The data analysis shows, as expected, a significant difference in efficiency and …
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Learning French pronunciation outside the classroom: a sound pedagogical experience?
… and two qualitative instruments: think-aloud verbal protocols (TAPs) and semistructured interviews. Participants who were involved in every stage of the study were then the object of case studies as these 'can penetrate situations in ways that are not always susceptible to numerical analysis' …
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A study of the problem solving strategies used by expert and novice designers
… teaching strategies to suit novice designers. Verbal protocols were made as samples of expert and novice designers solved a design problem and talked aloud as they worked. The verbalisations were recorded on video tape. The protocols were transcribed and segmented, with each segment being …
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IBriS study: intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance dependency.
… group recommendations and (c) think aloud verbal protocols with opioid dependent women. Phase 2 underpinned the evidence with the theoretical constructs of behaviour change, prior to testing the acceptability and implementation fidelity of the intervention in a feasibility study with an …
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A MULTIDIMENSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF DEEP AND SURFACE PROCESSING
… existence of extraterrestrials. Participants' verbal reports were coded using a scheme based on Pressley and Afflerbach's (1995) Verbal Protocols of Reading and the Construction-Integration Model (Kintsch, 2004). The open-ended task was coded using Biggs and Collis's (1982) Structured …
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The newswriting process : a protocol analysis case study of three practicing journalists
… was employed as the primary research tool. Verbal protocols require subjects to "think out loud" as they compose; the writing sessions are tape recorded.Three reporters who covered news daily were selected by their editors for the study. In the first protocol session the subjects wrote from …
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The strategic decision processes and information needs of nuclear government-oversight-agency managers
… strategic decision situations. Concurrent verbalizations yielded verbal protocols. Units of information used were identified according to the types of information-entities, attributes, values. relationships. and operators-in the Elementary Mental Activities Model. Unique units of …
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Experts and novices: Differences in their use of mental representation and metacognition in engineering design
… design strategy? Concurrent and retrospective verbal protocols were collected from six mechanical engineering students and four professional mechanical engineers as they solved an engineering design problem. Their verbalizations were audio recorded, transcribed, and coded. The conclusions drawn …
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The role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities
… comprising 34 face-to-face interviews using verbal protocols. The findings of this study revealed that differences in the structure of founder's identities drive variations in how they evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities and form first-person opportunity beliefs. The study showed that the …
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Concurrent versus retrospective verbal protocol for comparing window usability
… errors, questionnaires, ratings, and results of verbal protocols. Concurrent verbal protocol, a method in which the user "thinks aloud" while completing given tasks, has been heavily employed by software usability researchers who want to know the reason a user is having difficulties. Possible …