Table 2 The Interaction Analysis Model...

Table 2

The Interaction Analysis Model and Scale

Description	Phase	Scale Score
Level 1: Sharing and comparing of information
A statement of observation or opinion	la.	1.1
A statement of agreement from one or more other participants	lb.	1.3
Corroborating examples provided by one or more participants	1c.	1.5
Asking and answering questions to clarify details of statements	1d.	1.7
Definition, description, or identification of a problem	1e.	1.9
Level 2: Discovery and exploration of dissonance or inconsistency
Identifying and stating areas of disagreement	2a.	2.2
Asking and answering questions to clarify the source and extent of disagreement	2b.	2.5
Restating the participant’s position, and possibly advancing arguments or considerations in its support by references to the participant’s experience, literature, formal data collected, or proposal of relevant metaphor or analogy to illustrate point of view	2c.	2.8
Level 3: Negotiation of meaning/co-construction of knowledge
Negotiation or clarification of the meaning of terms	3a.	3.1
Negotiation of the relative weight to be assigned to types of argument	3b.	3.3
Identification of areas of agreement or overlap among conflicting concepts	3c.	3.5
Proposal and negotiation of new statements embodying compromise and co-construction	3d.	3.7
Proposal of integrating or accommodating metaphors or analogies	3e.	3.9
Level 4: Testing and modification of proposed synthesis or co-construction
Testing the proposed synthesis against “received fact” as shared by the participants and/or their culture	4a.	4.1
Testing against existing cognitive schema	4b.	4.3
Testing against personal experience	4c.	4.5
Testing against formal data collected	4d.	4.7
Testing against contradictory testimony in the literature	4e.	4.9
Level 5: Agreement statements/applications of newly constructed meaning
Summarization of agreement(s)	5a.	5.2
Applications of new knowledge	5b.	5.5
Metacognitive statements by the participants illustrating their understanding that their knowledge or ways of thinking (cognitive schema) have changed as a result of the interaction	5c.	5.8

Description	Phase	Scale Score
Level 1: Sharing and comparing of information
A statement of observation or opinion	la.	1.1
A statement of agreement from one or more other participants	lb.	1.3
Corroborating examples provided by one or more participants	1c.	1.5
Asking and answering questions to clarify details of statements	1d.	1.7
Definition, description, or identification of a problem	1e.	1.9
Level 2: Discovery and exploration of dissonance or inconsistency
Identifying and stating areas of disagreement	2a.	2.2
Asking and answering questions to clarify the source and extent of disagreement	2b.	2.5
Restating the participant’s position, and possibly advancing arguments or considerations in its support by references to the participant’s experience, literature, formal data collected, or proposal of relevant metaphor or analogy to illustrate point of view	2c.	2.8
Level 3: Negotiation of meaning/co-construction of knowledge
Negotiation or clarification of the meaning of terms	3a.	3.1
Negotiation of the relative weight to be assigned to types of argument	3b.	3.3
Identification of areas of agreement or overlap among conflicting concepts	3c.	3.5
Proposal and negotiation of new statements embodying compromise and co-construction	3d.	3.7
Proposal of integrating or accommodating metaphors or analogies	3e.	3.9
Level 4: Testing and modification of proposed synthesis or co-construction
Testing the proposed synthesis against “received fact” as shared by the participants and/or their culture	4a.	4.1
Testing against existing cognitive schema	4b.	4.3
Testing against personal experience	4c.	4.5
Testing against formal data collected	4d.	4.7
Testing against contradictory testimony in the literature	4e.	4.9
Level 5: Agreement statements/applications of newly constructed meaning
Summarization of agreement(s)	5a.	5.2
Applications of new knowledge	5b.	5.5
Metacognitive statements by the participants illustrating their understanding that their knowledge or ways of thinking (cognitive schema) have changed as a result of the interaction	5c.	5.8

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