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Timothy Koschmann, PhD

Professor, Department of Medical Education

About

Research Interests & Projects

His research has shifted from an initial concern with how technology might be used to augment collaborative forms of instruction to more fundamental inquiry into the social organization of learning and instruction. These he studies (along with a variety of other closely related phenomena such as discovery, understanding, and reason) as interactional matters. This work is ethnomethodologically-informed and draws on the methods and findings of Conversation Analysis. Koschmann has conducted fieldwork in a variety of settings most, but not all, of which have been medically-related.

Teaching Interests & Activities

Related to his interests in language and social interaction, Dr. Koschmann conducts an elective annually on doctor/patient interaction. He also supervises an elective on documentary filmmaking entitled, "Patient Stories."

Education

School: 
University of Missouri-Kansas City (Philosophy, B.A., 1968-1972), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Psychology, M.S., 1976-1980), Illinois Institute of Technology (Computer Science, Ph.D., 1982-1987)

Grants

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR), "Examining Professional Competency," 12/1/06–11/31/09.
  • National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation, & Communication (REC), "Coupling Theories of Learning and Research on Practice," 4/1/03–9/1/06.
  • National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Program for Research on Learning and Education (ROLE), "Toward a Descriptive Science of Learning Practices," 3/1/01–6/30/05.

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Presentations

  • Zemel, A. & Koschmann, T. (2015, October). Instructed action and learning’s work. To be presented at the 5th Annual LANSI Meeting, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
  • Koschmann, T. (2014, November). « Landing in the midst of things ». Invited presentation at the International Conference on Interactional Competences in Institutional Practices (ICIP14), Université de Neuchâtel.
  • Han, H., Papireddy, M.R., Hingle, S. Ferguson, J.A., Sandstrom, S., & Koschmann, T. (2014, October). Toward a work-based assessment of physician-patient communication skills. To be presented at the AACH Research and Teaching Forum, Orlando, FL.
  • Koschmann, T. & Zemel, A. (2014, October). When 'others' correct. To be presented at the 4th Annual LANSI Meeting, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
  • Cianciolo, A. & Koschmann, T. (2014, October). “I found two things...”: Negotiating a learnable matter via topic transition.” To be presented at the 4th Annual LANSI Meeting, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
  • Zemel, A., & Koschmann, T. (2014, June). A stitch in time: Teaching temporarily. Paper to be presented at ICCA 2014, UCLA.
  • Koschmann, T. Zemel, A., & Neumeister, M. (2014, June). "Case n' point": Discovering learning in the nonce. Paper to be presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2014, Boulder, CO.
  • Koschmann, T. (2014, April). Conversation analysis/ethnomthodological approaches. International Society for the Learning Sciences NAPLES webinar.
  • Cianciolo AT, Koschmann T. (2013, October). Traversing epistemic landscapes in a PBL tutorial meeting. To be presented at the 3rd Annual meeting of the Language and Social Interaction (LANSI) Working Group, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
  • Icbay, M.A. & Koschmann, T. (2013, August).  Member accounts in the assessment of professional competence.  To be presented at the 108th Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY.
  • Koschmann, T., & Zemel, A. (2013, August). Learning in interactional terms. To be presented in a thematic panel entitled, "Technologies and Techniques of Learning" at the IIEMCA Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.
  • Koschmann, T. (2012, September).  “Come on guys, use your sense!” Illuminating the ‘incarnate’ work of teaching.  Invited presentation at the 2nd Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group, Teachers College, Columbia University.
  • Icbay, M.A. & Koschmann, T. (2012, September).  Negotiating professional accountability:  Evaluating student performance in a clinical encounter.  Presented at the Applied Education Congress (APED), Ankara, Turkey.
  • Koschmann, T. & Zemel, A. (2012, May).  Instructed perception.  Presented at a Workshop on Objects and Interaction, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Koschmann, T. (2012, April).  “Come on guys, use your sense!” Illuminating the ‘incarnate’ work of teaching.  Presented at the Séminar International sur les Sciences de l’Apprendre, Institut Français de l’Éducation (IFÉ), Lyons, France.
  • Zemel, A. & Koschmann, T. (2011, November).  Learning and instruction in the operating room.  Presented at 97th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association (NCA), New Orleans, LA.
  • Zemel, A. & Koschmann, T (2011, October).  Learning and discovery in Online Chat.  Presented at the 1st Meeting of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
  • Koschmann, T. & Zemel, A.  (2011, July).  Discovering the learnable.  To be presented at the 10th Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Zemel, A., Koschmann, T., & Murray, M. (2011, May).  Therapeutic enactment in emotionally focused therapy.  Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, MA.
  • Mori, J., & Koschmann, T. (2010, July). Competency at the chalkboard:  Producing a geometry proof in talk and gesture.  Paper presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Mannheim, Germany.
  • Koschmann, T., Johnson, V., & Shapiro, D. (2010, April).  Patient stories:  Medical students as documentary filmmakers.  Presentation at “The Examined Life:  Writing and the art of medicine”, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
  • Koschmann, T., Stahl, G., & Zemel, A. (2009, June).  “You can divide the thing into two parts”: Analyzing understanding practice in the VMT environment.  Paper presented at a symposium entitled, “A Comparative Analysis of Understanding Practice in the VMT Environment” at CSCL ’09, Rhodes, Greece.