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Download full textFalkenhainer, Brian; And Others – 1987
This description of the Structure-Mapping Engine (SME), a flexible, cognitive simulation program for studying analogical processing which is based on Gentner's Structure-Mapping theory of analogy, points out that the SME provides a "tool kit" for constructing matching algorithms consistent with this theory. This report provides: (1) a…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Analogy, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedAssink, Egbert M. H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
In a large-scale field experiment aimed at improving spelling instruction in Dutch schools, the effectiveness of a newly developed algorithmic teaching method was compared with the conventionally and commonly used analogy approach. The analogy group showed comparatively little progress in learning results. (Seventy-five test items are appended).…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Analogy, Dutch, Foreign Countries
