ClassBank English Cognition & Instruction Corpus

Timothy Koschmann Department of Medical Education Southern Illinois University tkoschmann@acm.org website

Curtis LeBaron Marriott School of Management Brigham Young University lebaron@byu.edu website

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Citation information

• Koschmann, T. (1999). Special Issue: Meaning making. Discourse Processes, 27(2), 98-167.
• Koschmann, T., & LeBaron, C. (2002). Learning articulation as interactional achievement: Studying the conversation of gesture. Cognition and Instruction, 20, 249-282.

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one of the above references.

Project Description

This corpus includes transcripts linked to video from three problem-based learning (PBL) sessions with medical students. The three segments include:

1. My Theory: An attempt to diagnose a patient evidencing aspects of anomia, dysphasia, and some motor control problems.
2. Thrills: A group attempt to characterize precisely the meaning of a “thrill” in the circulatory system.
3. Risks: A consideration of the relative risks of x-ray and CAT scans.

The first segment was the focus of a special issue of Discourse Processes {Koschmann, 1999 #9609}. All three segments were discussed in further detail in Koschmann and LeBaron {, 2002 #9612}. The transcription format is CA-CHAT.