Communication Design Quarterly Sep 2021 Open Access

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

Kristin Marie Bivens University of Bern ; Candice A. Welhausen Auburn University

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.

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Communication Design Quarterly
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2021-09-01
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10.1145/3468859.3468860
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