Spring 2027

Quantitative Ethnography

Quantitative Ethnography explores theoretical foundations and practical use of quantitative ethnography, focusing on cognitive modeling and automated coding for applied fields like anthropology, education, and market research.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David Shaffer

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 3.36 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explore the foundations and practical use of quantitative ethnography

  • Discuss the unification of quantitative and qualitative methodologies in a quantitative ethnographic framework

  • Analyze the validity and reliability of learning analytics

  • Conduct quantitative ethnographic analyses of their own data including cognitive modeling, automated coding, writing research memos, and writing up their quantitative ethnographic study

  • Apply peer review commentary and write a final quantitative ethnography analysis

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Prerequisites

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ED PSYCH 301 or graduate/professional standing

EDPSYCH 551

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 3.36 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAVID SHAFFER is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 3.36 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Theoretical foundations and practical use of quantitative ethnography.
  • Cognitive modeling and automated coding.
  • Applications in anthropology, education, market research, product development, assessment, and training.
  • Validity and reliability of learning analytics.

Skills

  • Quantitative ethnography, cognitive modeling, automated coding, and application to anthropology, education, market research, product development, assessment, and training.
  • Analyzing the validity and reliability of learning analytics.
  • Conducting quantitative ethnographic analyses of own data, including cognitive modeling, automated coding, and writing research memos and studies.
  • Applying peer review commentary and writing a final quantitative ethnography analysis.

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EDPSYCH 551 · Spring 2027

Quantitative Ethnography

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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