Methods for Researching Professional Learning and Development

ISBN-13: 9783031085208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

This volume provides alternatives for tackling existing empirical, methodological, and analytical challenges. It does so by providing a broad overview of less established, as well as emerging methods, which are of great relevance for current research on professional learning and development. As such, it offers a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art methodologies and future directions within the workplace learning and professional development research. By describing these novel approaches and providing empirical illustrations, the book promotes innovative methodologies for investigating professional learning and development. It also supports scholars to understand upcoming empirical research and methods and encourages novice as well as established researchers to adopt new empirical strategies beyond traditional ones that have the potential to enrich a better understanding of professional learning and development. 

Spis treści

Methods for researching professional learning and development:

Challenges, applications, and empirical illustrations.

Michael Goller, Eva Kyndt, Susanna Paloniemi, & Crina Damşa (Eds.)

1. Addressing methodological challenges in research on professional learning and 

development 

(Michael Goller, Eva Kyndt, Susanna Paloniemi, & Crina Damşa)

Part I. Methods for data collection

2. Applying the experience sampling method to research on workplace learning

(Jürgen Seifried & Andreas Rausch)

3. Uncovering informal workplace learning by using diaries

(Andreas Rausch, Michael Goller, & Bianca Steffen)

4. Using the vignette technique to increase insight into professional development at

work

(Veronika Anselmann & Regina H. Mulder)

5. Integrating self-reports and electrodermal activity (EDA) measurement in 

studying emotions in professional learning

(Susanna Paloniemi, Markku Penttonen, Anneli Eteläpelto, Päivi Hökkä, & Katja 

Vähäsantanen)

complementary data in researching emotions in professional learning.

6. Multimodal stress assessment in working and learning contexts: Using 

physiological, observational and experience-based data

(Tobias Kärner & Detlef Sembill)

7. Combining physiological and experiential measures to study adult learning 

(Minna Silvennoinen, Tiina Parviainen, Anita Malinen, Suvi Karjalainen, Mari 

Manu, & Mikko Vesisenaho)

8. Measuring professional competence using computer-generated log data

(Luca Spliethoff & Stephan Abele)

9. Investigating interaction dynamics: A temporal approach to team learning

(Lida David, Maaike Endedijk & Piet van den Bossche)

Part II. Methods for data analysis

10. Bayesian statistics in the research field of professional learning and development

(Petri Nokelainen, Tahani Z. Aldahdouh, & Alaa A. Aldahdouh)

11. A primer to latent profile and latent class analysis

(Johannes Bauer)

12. PLS-based structural equation modelling: An alternative approach to estimate 

complex relationships between unobserved constructs

(Michael Goller & Frederic Hilkenmeier)

13. Participant’s video annotations as a database to measure professional 

development

(Bianca Steffen & Maikki Pouta)

14. Data mining and analytics in the context of workplace learning: Benefits and 

affordances

(Dirk Ifenthaler)

15. Addressing ‘wicked problems’ using visual analysis

(Eva Kyndt & Jan Aerts)

Part III. Research approaches

16. Delphi-technique as a method for research on professional learning

(Christian Harteis)

17. The narrative approach to research professional identity: relational, temporal, 

and dialogical perspectives

(Katja Vähäsantanen, & Maarit Arvaja)

18. Capturing actions of communities: Towards virtual ethnography and digital 

tools in researching organizations and workplace learning

(Soila Lemmetty, Kaija Collin, Vlad Glăveanu, & Susanna Paloniemi)

19. Video-based interaction analysis: a research and training method to understand 

workplace learning and professional development

(Laurent Filliettaz, Stéphanie Garcia, & Marianne Zogmal)

20. Q Method: Assessing subjectivity through structured ranking of items

(Susanne Leidig, Hanna Köhler, Carina Caruso, & Michael Goller)

21. Eye tracking in professional learning and development: Uncovering expertise 

development among residents in radiology

(Helen Jossberger)

22. Seeing workplaces from a Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach

(Tuire Palonen)

23. Design-based research – grounding, understanding and empirical illustration in 

the context of vocational education

(Karl-Heinz Gerholz & Anne Wagner)

24. Change Laboratory method for facilitating transformative agency and collective

professional learning – case from a Finnish elementary school

(Anu Kajamaa & Sakari Hyrkkö)

25. Professional learning analytics: Understanding complex learning processes 

through measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of MOOC data

(Allison Littlejohn, Eileen Kennedy, & Diana Laurillard)

26. Longitudinal case study research to study self-regulation of professional 

learning: combining observations and stimulated recall interviews throughout 

everyday work

(Katrien Cuyvers, Piet Van den Bossche, & Vincent Donche)

Part IV. Discussion & Commentary

27. Researching professional learning in complex environments: Opportunities and 

challenges from a qualitative research perspective

(Monika Nerland)

28. How to deal with the complexity in research on workplace learning

(Erno Lehtinen)

O autorze

Michael Goller (PhD Educational Sciences) is a research associate and postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Between October 2018 and March 2020 he served as full visiting professor at the University of Bamberg. His current research interests comprise among others expertise development and workplace learning in general and in contexts of digitalisation in particular, as well as professional learning and development of students at the boundary of institutionalised and less institutionalised learning environments like internships or particular learning arrangements in VET. In his research, he adopts a mix of research methods covering both qualitative as well as quantitative approaches (diaries, document analysis, qualitative content analysis, thematic analysis, PLS-based SEM, latent profile analysis, latent moderator SEM).

Eva Kyndt (PhD Educational Sciences) is an associate professor in human resource development and management at the Centre for the New Workforce (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia) and Department for Training and Education Sciences (University of Antwerp, Belgium). The common thread in her research is the attention of the intersection between learning and working. She has a profound interest in sustainable careers and focuses on lifelong learning and wellbeing of (prospective) employees. Her research interests include preparing graduates for sustainable careers, social networks in organisations, wellbeing at work and workplace learning. While she has conducted several mixed methods studies, she primarily adopts advanced quantitative methods including multilevel analysis, mixture growth models, generalized cross-lagged panel models and neural network analysis. In addition, she is currently venturing into emerging methods such as multilevel network analysis, self-organizing maps and visual analysis.

Susanna Paloniemi (PhD Educational Sciences) is a senior university lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her recent and current research focuses on professional learning, identity and agency in various work contexts and domains. Further, research on the role of emotions within the process of professional learning at work, has brought various research methods in the centre of her work. The application of a multi-method approach (e.g. self-reports, measurements, observations) in researching workplace learning from various perspectives is the underlying interest in her work.

Crina Damsa (PhD Educational Sciences) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education at University of Oslo, Norway. The main theme of her research are situated processes of learning among young adults (students and professionals), under an overarching interest for lifelong learning. Research areas such as learning through collaboration and inquiry, technology enhanced learning and agency in work and learning are especially highlighted. While she has conducted several mixed methods studies, Crina’s research primarily adopts a qualitative methodology, including varied analytical approaches, designs and interpretative frameworks. Both exploratory ethnographies and longitudinal video observation research, and formative intervention studies, using a design-based methodology, are represented in her work. Currently, she is initiating research employing event sampling methods and multimodal learning, aiming to capture learning activities across digital and physical contexts.