Qualitative Approaches to the Verbal Protocol Analysis of Strategic Processing
Byeong‐Young Cho, Lindsay Woodward, Peter P. Afflerbach · 2020
In this chapter, we examine qualitative approaches to verbal protocol analysis and their role in constructing detailed accounts of strategic processing. To that end, we draw from diverse studies in the area of reading in which qualitative protocol data is extensively used to catalog and describe the readers’ strategies engaged with a variety of texts, tasks, and goals. We argue for the importance of investigating strategic processing in reading, examine the scientific merits of qualitative verbal protocol analysis in examining such strategic processing, and discuss critical issues in the qualitative analysis of verbal protocol data and suggest possible means of addressing the issues to undertake rigorous analyses of strategic processing.