Methods for Researching Professional Learning and Development

Chapter 1 Addressing Methodological Challenges in Research on Professional Learning and Development

Chapter 2 Applying the Experience Sampling Method to Research on Workplace Learning

Chapter 3 Uncovering Informal Workplace Learning by Using Diaries

Chapter 4 Using the Vignette Technique to Increase Insight into Professional Development at Work

Chapter 5 Integrating Self-Reports and Electrodermal Activity (EDA) Measurement in Studying Emotions in Professional Learning

Chapter 6 Multimodal Stress Assessment in Working and Learning Contexts Using Physiological, Observational and Experience-Based Data

Chapter 7 Combining Physiological and Experiential Measures to Study the Adult Learning Experience

Chapter 8 Measuring Professional Competence Using Computer-Generated Log Data

Chapter 9 Investigating Interaction Dynamics: A Temporal Approach to Team Learning

Chapter 10 Bayesian Statistics in the Research Field of Professional Learning and Development

Chapter 11 A Primer to Latent Profile and Latent Class Analysis

Chapter 12 PLS-Based Structural Equation Modelling: An Alternative Approach to Estimating Complex Relationships Between Unobserved Constructs

Chapter 13 Participant’s Video Annotations as a Database to Measure Professional Development

Chapter 14 Data Mining and Analytics in the Context of Workplace Learning: Benefits and Affordances

Chapter 15 Addressing ‘Wicked Problems’ Using Visual Analysis

Chapter 16 Delphi-Technique as a Method for Research on Professional Learning

Chapter 17 The Narrative Approach to Research Professional Identity: Relational, Temporal, and Dialogical Perspectives

Chapter 18 Capturing Actions of Communities: Towards Virtual Ethnography and Digital Tools in Researching Organizations and Workplace Learning

Chapter 19 Video-Based Interaction Analysis: A Research and Training Method to Understand Workplace Learning and Professional Development

Chapter 20 Q Method: Assessing Subjectivity Through Structured Ranking of Items

Chapter 21 Eye Tracking in Professional Learning and Development: Uncovering Expertise Development Among Residents in Radiology

Chapter 22 Seeing Workplaces from a Social Network Analysis (SNA) Approach

Chapter 23 Design-Based Research – Grounding, Understanding and Empirical Illustration in the Context of Vocational Education

Chapter 24 Change Laboratory Method for Facilitating Transformative Agency and Collective Professional Learning – Case from a Finnish Elementary School

Chapter 25 Professional Learning Analytics: Understanding Complex Learning Processes Through Measurement, Collection, Analysis, and Reporting of MOOC Data

Chapter 26 Longitudinal Case Study Research to Study Self-Regulation of Professional Learning: Combining Observations and Stimulated Recall Interviews Throughout Everyday Work

Chapter 27 Researching Professional Learning in Complex Environments: Opportunities and Challenges from a Qualitative Research Perspective

Chapter 28 How to Deal with the Complexity in Research on Workplace Learning