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Thorndahl, Kathrine Liedtke; Stentoft, Diana – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2020
It is often assumed that problem-based learning is an effective approach for fostering the development and/or improvement of students' critical thinking. To shed light on the connection between problem-based learning and critical thinking, this scoping review maps out how the notion of critical thinking is conceptualized in relation to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Problem Based Learning, Higher Education, Databases
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Bond, Caroline; Symes, Wendy; Hebron, Judith; Humphrey, Neil; Morewood, Gareth; Woods, Kevin – School Psychology International, 2016
Systematic literature reviews can play a key role in underpinning evidence-based practice. To date, large-scale reviews of interventions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have focused primarily on research quality. To assist practitioners, the current review adopted a broader framework which allowed for greater consideration of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Classification
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Fajardo, Inmaculada; Parra, Elena; Canas, Jose J. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
The efficacy of video-based sign language (SL) navigation aids to improve Web search for Deaf Signers was tested by two experiments. Experiment 1 compared 2 navigation aids based on text hyperlinks linked to embedded SL videos, which differed in the spatial contiguity between the text hyperlink and SL video (contiguous vs. distant). Deaf Signers'…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Classification, Search Strategies
Mukund, Smruthi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Language plays a very important role in understanding the culture and mindset of people. Given the abundance of electronic multilingual data, it is interesting to see what insight can be gained by automatic analysis of text. This in turn calls for text analysis which is focused on non-topical information such as emotions being expressed that is in…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Urdu, Natural Language Processing, Cues
Ball, Geoffrey H. – 1970
Sorting things into groups is a basic intellectual task that allows people to simplify with minimal reduction in information. Classification techniques, which include both clustering and discrimination, provide step-by-step computer-based procedures for sorting things based on notions of generalized similarity and on the "class description"…
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Computers, Correlation
Morse, Philip M. – 1971
Efficient search of items in a store of information, such as books in a library, abstracts of articles, information in a computer data bank or the like, requires that the items most closely connected in content be close together, in order that a person looking for some particular information may concentrate his search on as small a part of the…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Storage Devices, Correlation, Indexing