Research-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

2024

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13 Feb 2024 What the Videography Manual Didn’t Cover: Filming Music Education The classroom videography manual we published in 2023 was about filming teaching. Music education has the same word in it — teaching — but it is a fundamentally different recording challenge. Sound is the subject matter. The lesson is often one person, in a practice room. And the feedback cycle the teacher needs to reach is mostly the one that happens when no camera is present. A reflection on what the manual missed, and a software prototype that tries to address part of it. teacher-educationvideo-based-learningmusic-education

2023

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9 May 2023 How to Actually Film a Classroom: An Open-Access Manual on Classroom Videography Three years after writing about why classroom video works, Charlotte Kramer, Kai Kaspar, and I wrote a manual on how to actually do it. The gap between interpreting study-specific evidence for video-based learning and producing usable footage turns out to be substantial. The manual is open access. Here is what is in it and why some of it surprised me to write. teacher-educationvideo-based-learningclassroom-management

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