USING STIMULATED RECALL METHOD IN UNDERSTANDING TEACHER INTERACTIVE DECISION MAKING

Abstract

This study sheds lights on whether Stimulated Recall (SR) as data collection method can gain
accurate information if the recall is not conducted immediately after the task is completed.
This study emerges from a research conducted previously about teacher decision making
regarding their language use which is a dissertation writing and is not published yet. This
paper is to investigate whether it is applicable to recall thought processes of teacher
interactive decision making. This study applies interpretative method which uses documents
of classroom observation video transcription and post observation interview transcription as
data. The result is it is beneficial to use SR as data collection method since it can gain
information accurately to recall the thought processes of teacher interactive decision making.
It can work well to collect the data if SR is conducted based on the recommendations
proposed by Gass and Mackay (2000) which are time, strong stimulus, good training for the
research participants, and consistency with research questions.