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DATA COLLECTION METHODS Reaction to Stimulus (cases‚ vignettes‚ videos)

المؤلف:  Nat Bartels

المصدر:  Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

الجزء والصفحة:  P14-C1

2026-08-07

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DATA COLLECTION METHODS

Reaction to Stimulus (cases‚ vignettes‚ videos)

Another task is to present some sort of stimulus (cases‚ vignettes‚ videos of teaching) and have the participants react to them in some way (Kagan‚ 1993). Unlike stimulated recall where each participant is asked to recall as much as they can of an incident they were involved in‚ reaction to stimulus tasks have participants respond in some way to a situation which they have not experienced personally before. They can be asked simply to explain what they saw (Copeland et al‚ 1994; Copeland & D’Emidio-Caston‚ 1998)‚ evaluate what happened in the stimulus (Jacobs & Morita‚ 2002)‚ or answer specific questions about the stimulus (Byra & Sherman‚ 1993). This is different from problem solving tasks in that there is no particular solution which the participants must come up with. While problem solving tasks allow you to focus on the procedures and knowledge used to work on a problem‚ data from reaction to stimulus tasks can reveal the kinds of recognition schemata teachers have and how these are used to interpret classroom or pedagogical situations. While this method does allow for the in depth data on particular actions the participants have taken (as stimulated recall does)‚ but one advantage of this kind of task is that all the participants react to the same stimulus‚ so results from a number of participants are easier to compare.