Beyond the Transcript: Toward Innovative Methods for Video-Based Analysis of Classroom Interaction

• In Event: Roundtable Session 105
  In Roundtable Session: Technological Advances in Qualitative Inquiry and Visual Methods

Abstract

The presenting paper explores an innovative method of doing video-based analysis of classroom practices that allows researchers to study classroom interactions while attending to the social processes and contexts in which they take place. This approach allows for movement beyond analyzing students, teachers, and content in isolation to instead analyze the interactions among teachers and students as our fundamental focus. The methods described move beyond traditional transcripts to create video timelines that allow for relational coding of interaction and multiple units of analyses. These methods take us one step closer to addressing a basic challenge of educational research: understanding learning in relation to individual knowledge on one hand, and in relation to larger-scale cultural processes on the other.

Authors

• Cecilia Henriquez Fernandez, University of California - Los Angeles

• Melissa Sunshine Cook, University of California - Los Angeles

• Jacqueline Wong, University of California - Los Angeles

• Scott Monroe, University of California - Los Angeles