MedSt@r – Media Education Research Using Stimulated Recall Method

Stimulated Recall Method (Str) has been used to investigate teacher’s pedagogical thinking. Method is used to revive memories after the lesson in order to determine the thoughts which occurred during the lesson. The idea is that an interviewee “may be enabled to relive an original situation with vividness and accuracy if he [or she] is presented with a large number of the cues or stimuli which occurred during the original situation” (Bloom, 1953, p. 161).

These cues can be e.g. books used or a video recording of the lesson. In media education reseach there is a need for summoning up the virtual elements of a class too. E.g. in our MedSt@r Project the class was using CmapTools. After the lesson, we have used CmapTools recorder function with the teacher to follow step by step how each pupil has created his/her cmap (i.e. a concept map file).

The project in whole investigates
a) features of using Stimulated Recall Method in media education research, and
b) on a meta-level – what decisions researcher does and how is s/he reasoning those.

>> to cmaps of my presentation in a post-graduate seminar Oct 29th (in Finnish).