Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data

By J. H. Danks, K. Anders Ericsson, Herbert A. Simon. 1984

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning (2022, background): “Human decision-making is often the result of extended chains of thought [1, 2].”
Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective (2010, methodology): “A common approach used in cognitive science to “directly trace” concurrent thinking is the think-aloud protocol [10].”
The Effects of Readers' Misconceptions on Comprehension of Scientific Text (2005, methodology): “We used a think-aloud methodology to investigate the different cognitive processes online because it allows us to consider a variety of readers’ responses ( Ericsson & Simon, 1993; Pressley & Afflerbach, 1995; Trabasso & Suh, 1993).”
Synthesis of Discipline-Based Education Research in Physics. (2014, background): “Doing more, such as asking subjects why they make particular choices in performing a task [469] or asking subjects to selfexplain while reading and attempting to understand a solution to a problem [470], may change the accuracy of observed performance in studies of expertise [467].”
Qualitative Inquiry in the History of Psychology (2014, background): “…(in Economics), Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman, both won their distinction by carrying out inquiries on thinking and problem solving by developing mathematical models based on verbal description and a qualitative analysis of everyday problem solving (Ericsson & Simon, 1993; Kahneman, 2003).”
On the cultural validity of science assessments (2001, background): “Concurrent and retrospective student verbalizations (Ericsson & Simon, 1993) are coded according to categories of cognitive activity such as problem representation, monitoring, strategy use, and content-based explanation (cf. Chi, Feltovich, & Glaser, 1981).”
Understanding the experience of interactive art: Iamascope in Beta_space (2005, methodology): “Because reports are made after the experience, this method is regarded as having less impact on cognitive processes than concurrent think-aloud methods [7].”