Qualitative-Methods | Sebastian Spicker

2025

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10 Jun 2025 Your Transcript Is Already an Interpretation: AI Transcription and Grounded Theory aTrain and noScribe can run locally and reduce data-transfer exposure in tools that can genuinely save hours of work in qualitative interview research. They also make methodological decisions on your behalf without telling you. If you do grounded theory, you need to know which decisions those are. qualitative-methodsgrounded-theorytranscription

2021

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23 Nov 2021 They Told Me Not to Use Design Thinking. They Were Right. I treated a design workflow as though it were a complete research methodology. Grounded-theory techniques would have made my analysis of unexpected student responses more systematic. That is a postmortem of this thesis, not a universal verdict against design-based research. research-methodsgrounded-theorydesign-thinking

2020

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14 Jun 2020 What Happens When You Film Student Teachers: ViLLA and the Case for Video in Teacher Education ViLLA is an online portal of real classroom videos built for teacher education at the University of Cologne. The idea sounds straightforward. Getting there required filming actual lessons, building infrastructure, evaluating a quasi-experimental intervention, and later scaling the project. Some notes on how that went. teacher-educationvideo-based-learningclassroom-management