A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, the Oxygen Of Social Life.

This definition is about the science of teaching-learning as social processes and its uses to accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning.

Main Page: Terms that Describe Vocabulary of Learning and its Uses

Theme: Distinguishing research used to describe a leaners’ view of learning.

Definition: 1. Qualitative research processes that result in reports of descriptions of observable phenomena, such as what people do to learn.

2. The process of identifying, describing, and reporting patterns of behavior without creating or testing theories.

3. Application of systems used by anthropologists, applied behavior analysts, participant-observers, and other scientists to identify, record, describe, and report what people do routinely, the kinds of problems they encounter to complete these routines, and social patterns they use to overcome these problems.

4. An early step in the development and application of a science of learning that accelerates, increases, and deepens (AIDs) learning promptly, if not dramatically.

Synonyms: APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS, sometimes called behavior modification, applies the science that assesses relationships between behavior patterns, including of humans, and their immediate environment in order to change that environment so it changes specific behavior patterns. BEHAVIORAL SOCIOLOGY uses empirical-inductive analyses of behavior to analyze social processes. EXPERIENCE infers that time-spent doing something necessarily results in procedures that generalize to successful use in another situation. EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR uses an inductive, data-driven examination of observable, measurable patterns of behavior that can be predicted and managed (“controlled”). GROUNDED THEORY RESEARCH emphasizes methods and processes that identify common variables across cases in order to discover theories. HYPOTHETICO-DEDUCTIVE RESEARCH, a method or set of practices also called scientific method, used to formulate, test, and generalize phenomena into hypotheses, theories, and laws. RESEARCH BASED (jargon) that indicates a category of vague claims to unstated relationships of a practice to an unstated part(s) of one or more research studies.

Highlight: Systematic, reusable, reliable descriptions of procedures and results from them that others may apply to obtain the same results.

Comment: Grounded research uses inductive processes that begin with systematic observations and result in descriptions of those observations that educators and other practitioners may use to increase learning without concern for theories. Distinctions between grounded research and its synonyms fall into two categories: inductive and deductive processes, that is, studies that begin with observations and those that begin with an idea, concept, or another generalization. These differences are sometimes vague or confounded by the use of common words with different meanings, such as the word behavior can refer to different observables when used by a grand theory sociologist and an experimental behavior analyst.

 References

1. Applied Behavior Analysis
2. Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
3. Grounded Theory.
4. Hypothetico-Deductive Model.
5. Introduction to Grounded Theory

Related Reading

1. Burgess, R. and Bushell, D. (1969). Behavioral Sociology: The Experimental Analysis of Social Process. NY: Columbia University Press.

Related Resources

1. Grounded Theory Institute.
2. Grounded Theory Review.
3. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Last Edited: June 17, 2015