Communication Design Quarterly Sep 2021

Using a hybrid card sorting-affinity diagramming method to teach content analysis

Kristin Marie Bivens ; Candice A. Welhausen

Abstract

In this teaching experience report, we describe a research experience for undergraduates (REUs) designed to cognitively support the work of two student research assistants (RAs) from a two-year college (2YC) on a funded project that involved analyzing user-generated content for an mHealth app. First, we suggest partnerships between two- and four-year institutions as a move toward REU equity because students from 2YCs are not typically afforded these opportunities. We then review the role of research in undergraduate learning and posit the importance of scaffolding to sequence cognitive leaps. Finally, we present the cognitive scaffolding we created and connect it to our hybrid card sorting-affinity diagramming content analysis method.

Journal
Communication Design Quarterly
Published
2021-09-01
DOI
10.1145/3468859.3468860
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Topics
two-year college multimodality race and writing

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