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Meka N. McCammon; Katie Wolfe; Ruiqin Gao; Angela Starrett – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
Data-based decision-making, which involves evaluating students' progress and making instructional decisions, is an integral competency for preservice teachers. Several studies have found that visual aids, such as decision-making models, may be an effective way to train preservice teachers to make instructional decisions. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies
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Hills, Thomas T.; Hertwig, Ralph – Psychological Review, 2012
Gonzalez and Dutt (2011) recently reported that trends during sampling, prior to a consequential risky decision, reveal a gradual movement from exploration to exploitation. That is, even when search imposes no immediate costs, people adopt the same pattern manifest in costly search: early exploration followed by later exploitation. From this…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Models, Inferences, Sampling
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Malmberg, Kenneth J.; Annis, Jeffrey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Many models of recognition are derived from models originally applied to perception tasks, which assume that decisions from trial to trial are independent. While the independence assumption is violated for many perception tasks, we present the results of several experiments intended to relate memory and perception by exploring sequential…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Models, Memory, Perception
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Good, Jessica J.; Moss-Racusin, Corinne A.; Sanchez, Diana T. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2012
Across two studies, we tested whether perceived social costs and benefits of confrontation would similarly predict confronting discrimination both when it was experienced and when it was observed as directed at others. Female undergraduate participants were asked to recall past experiences and observations of sexism, as well as their confronting…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Conflict, Females
Shafat, Gabriel; Levin, Ilya – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This paper deals with two types of logical problems--recognition problems and reverse engineering problems, and with the interrelations between these types of problems. The recognition problems are modeled in the form of a visual representation of various objects in a common pattern, with a composition of represented objects in the pattern.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Online Searching, Search Strategies
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Barnes, Tiffany; Stamper, John – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
In building intelligent tutoring systems, it is critical to be able to understand and diagnose student responses in interactive problem solving. However, building this understanding into a computer-based intelligent tutor is a time-intensive process usually conducted by subject experts. Much of this time is spent in building production rules that…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Logical Thinking, Tutors, Probability
Wetstein, Matthew; Hays, Brianna; Nguyen, Alyssa – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
This study seeks to extend the literature on higher education enrollment patterns during times of recession by examining patterns of enrollment and successful course completion in one of the world's largest higher education systems--the California Community College system. The data are drawn from publicly available data sources on the web. CCC…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, Economic Climate, Financial Problems
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers