- Protocol analysis
Protocol analysis is a psychological research method that elicits verbal reports from research participants. Protocol analysis is used to study thinking in
cognitive psychology (Crutcher, 1994),cognitive science (Simon & Kaplan, 1989), and behavior analysis (Austin & Delaney, 1998). It has found further application in the design of surveys and interviews (Sudman, Bradburn & Schwarz, 1996),usability testing (Henderson, Smith, Podd, & Varela-Alvarez, 1995) andeducational psychology (Pressley & Afflerbach 1995; Renkl, 1997).ee also
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Content analysis External links
[http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.proto.thnk.html protocol analysis]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/TagHelper.html] : A tool for facilitating verbal protocol analysis in English, German, Spanish, or Chinese.
References
Austin, J., & Delaney, P. F. (1998). Protocol analysis as a tool for behavior analysis. "Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 15", 41-56.
Crutcher, R. J. (1994). Telling what we know: The use of verbal report methodologies in psychological research. "Psychological Science, 5", 241-244.
Ericsson, K. A., & Crutcher, R. J. (1991). Introspection and verbal reports on cognitive processes - two approaches to the study of thought processes: A response to Howe. "New Ideas in Psychology, 9," 57-71.
Ericsson, K. A., & Simon, H. A. (1993). "Protocol analysis: Verbal reports as data". MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Pressley, M., & Afflerbach, P. (1995). "Verbal protocols of reading: The nature of constructively responsive reading". Hillsdale, NJ, USA: Erlbaum.
Renkl, A. (1997). Learning from worked-out examples: A study on individual differences. "Cognitive Science, 21", 1-29.
Sudman, S., Bradburn, N. M., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.)(1996). "Thinking about answers: The application of cognitive processes to survey methodology." San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.
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