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Peer reviewedJacob, Elin K.; Shaw, Debora – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1998
Discusses research dealing with the cognitive aspects of formal systems of knowledge representation. Highlights include the origins and theoretical foundations of the cognitive viewpoint; cognition and information science; cognitivism, mentalism, and subjective individualism; categorization; mental models; and sociocognitive approaches to indexing…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Indexing
Download full textArcavi, Abraham – 1999
As biological and socio-cultural beings, humans are encouraged and aspire to "see" not only what comes "within sight," but also what is not possible to see. Visualization is described as offering a method of seeing the unseen. These ideas are organized into sections that focus on seeing the unseen in data, seeing the unseen in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRam, Ashwin, Ed.; Nersessian, Nancy J., Ed.; Keil, Frank C., Ed. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1997
This special issue includes four articles that address issues concerning conceptual change. Topics include analogical reasoning and a case study of Johannes Kepler; conceptual change and wine expertise; the role of extreme case reasoning in instruction for conceptual change; and dynamic science assessment: a new approach for investigating…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Concept Formation, Instructional Design
Erduran, Sibel – 1998
This paper reports on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for the characterization of models and modeling that can be useful in application to chemistry education. The underlying argument marks a departure from an emphasis on concepts that are the outcomes of chemical inquiry about how knowledge growth occurs through modeling in chemistry.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Nelissen, Jo M. C.; Tomic, Welko – 1996
A cognitive or internal representation refers to an organized system of information which reflects certain, but not all, of the information about reality being represented. This paper considers various opinions, controversies, and debates about what representation is, how it comes about, and what forms of representation can be distinguished. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Peer reviewedPoulter, Alan; And Others – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
Considers the role of library and information science professionals as knowledge engineers. Highlights include knowledge acquisition, including personal experience, interviews, protocol analysis, observation, multidimensional sorting, printed sources, and machine learning; knowledge representation, including production rules and semantic nets;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Expert Systems, Information Scientists
