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The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation
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Rachel E. Scherr and Michael C. Wittmann
This article, presented at the 2002 Physics Education Research Conference, discusses how a researcher's interests dictate which student statements in a clinical interview are considered to constitute data. The authors argue that to the extent that research agendas are unexamined, they may control attention inappropriately, limiting the effectiveness of both data collection and data interpretation. The authors describe an interview in which the interviewer paid nearly exclusive attention to the student's conceptual understanding of charge flow, thereby missing information about, for example, her epistemological frame. The authors also describe a later analysis of the same interview, in which our first reactions to the interview say more about our agendas as researchers than about the character of the interview itself.
Physics Education Research Conference 2002
Part of the PER Conference series Boise, Idaho: August 7-8, 2002
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=4298">Scherr, Rachel, and Michael Wittmann. "The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, August 7-8, 2002.</a>
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R. Scherr and M. Wittmann, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, 2002, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4298&DocID=1156).
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R. Scherr and M. Wittmann, The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, 2002, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4298&DocID=1156>.
APA Format
Scherr, R., & Wittmann, M. (2002, August 7-8). The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho. Retrieved May 3, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4298&DocID=1156
Chicago Format
Scherr, Rachel, and Michael Wittmann. "The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, August 7-8, 2002. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4298&DocID=1156 (accessed 3 May 2025).
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Scherr, Rachel, and Michael Wittmann. "The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation." Physics Education Research Conference 2002. Boise, Idaho: 2002. of PER Conference. 3 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4298&DocID=1156>.
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Author = "Rachel Scherr and Michael Wittmann",
Title = {The challenge of listening: The effect of researcher agenda on data collection and interpretation},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2002},
Address = {Boise, Idaho},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {August 7-8},
Year = {2002}
}
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