Efficiency evaluation of social and political philosophy assignments using quantitative content analysis
M. V. Kozlova, M. S. Bukhtoyarov, L. A. Elizova
Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Keywords: philosophy teaching, KH Coder, social philosophy, society, state, vision of future, quantitative content analysis
Abstract
Introduction. Implementation of digital technology for teaching philosophy in higher education requires new approaches to the content quality assessment. Writing assignments, engaging students in creating texts where the use of philosophical terms is implied, can become the source of data for Philosophy course efficiency analysis and evaluation. They can also enable the research of the students’ vision with the quantitative methods of text analysis. The article aims at evaluating the particular assignment efficiency on Social and Political Philosophy within the Philosophy course implying quantitative content analysis. Methodology. The suggested research implements quantitative content analysis for determining the frequency of social and political philosophy terms in students’ texts for the writing assignment. The essay’s corpus is generated from the assignment “Utopia” in the online course “Philosophy” for 2nd-year bachelor students that is aimed at describing their vision of humanity’s future. The acquired results were broadly categorized into two groups: general terms and the terminology relating specifically to social and political philosophy topics. Discussion. The research results demonstrate that the most frequently used nouns in the students’ essays represent the most general terms of social and political philosophy. However, specific terminology is implemented by the students relatively rarely. Conclusion. The research results confirm the hypothesis that quantitative content analysis of student-generated texts in the online course can become the data source for improving the course content and assignments. In this particular case, quantitative content analysis of social and political terms implementation for the student-generated text corpus in assignment “Utopia” demonstrates the necessity to pay more attention to specific terminology of social and political philosophy while teaching the course. Quantitative methods implementation for student assignments analysis revealed the opportunities to use them as a source of data for sociophilosopical research of students’ vision for the future of humanity.
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