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Butterfuss, Reese; Kendeou, Panayiota – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
The aim of this paper is two-fold. The first aim is to review the core representational and processing aspects of influential accounts of single-document and multiple-document comprehension with a particular emphasis on how readers negotiate conflicting information during reading. This review provides the groundwork for the second aim--to expand…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Conflict, Misconceptions
Butterfuss, Reese; Kendeou, Panayiota – Grantee Submission, 2021
The aim of this paper is two-fold. The first aim is to review the core representational and processing aspects of influential accounts of single-document and multiple-document comprehension with a particular emphasis on how readers negotiate conflicting information during reading. This review provides the groundwork for the second aim--to expand…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Conflict, Misconceptions
Grubišic, Ani; Žitko, Branko; Stankov, Slavomir – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2020
In intelligent e-learning systems that adapt a learning and teaching process to student knowledge, it is important to adapt the system as quickly as possible. However, adaptation is not possible until the student model is initialized. In this paper, a new approach to student model initialization using domain knowledge representative subset is…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Models, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Beker, Katinka; van den Broek, Paul; Jolles, Dietsje – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Constructing a knowledge representation from multiple texts requires the integration of information across texts. The aim of the current study was to investigate how elementary school students integrate information across multiple text passages and, particularly, whether students use information from a prior text to improve understanding of a…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
Ke, Fengfeng – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Via a systematic review of the literature on learning games, this article presents a systematic discussion on the design of intrinsic integration of domain-specific learning in game mechanics and game world design. A total of 69 articles ultimately met the inclusion criteria and were coded for the literature synthesis. Exemplary learning games…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Games, Design, Play
Kalish, Charles W.; Zhu, XiaoJin; Rogers, Timothy T. – Developmental Science, 2015
Psychological intuitions about natural category structure do not always correspond to the true structure of the world. The current study explores young children's responses to conflict between intuitive structure and authoritative feedback using a semi-supervised learning (Zhu et al., 2007) paradigm. In three experiments, 160 children between the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Child Development, Young Children, Intuition
Arnold, Kathleen M.; Daniel, David B.; Jensen, Jamie L.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Marsh, Elizabeth J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Knowing what skills underlie college success can allow students, teachers, and universities to identify and to help at-risk students. One skill that may underlie success across a variety of subject areas is structure building, the ability to create mental representations of narratives (Gernsbacher, Varner, & Faust, 1990). We tested if…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Psychology, Biology
Do, Quang Xuan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In this thesis, we study the importance of background knowledge in relation extraction systems. We not only demonstrate the benefits of leveraging background knowledge to improve the systems' performance but also propose a principled framework that allows one to effectively incorporate knowledge into statistical machine learning models for…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Computer Science
Taskin-Ekici, Fatma; Ekici, Erhan; Cokadar, Hulusi – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
This study aims to explore pre-service elementary teachers' understandings of the environment. A survey method was carried out in this study. A close-ended questionnaire and Draw-An-Environment Test (DAET) are administered to pre-service teachers (N = 255) after instruction of an Environmental Education course. A rubric (DAET-R) is used for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Environmental Education
Nokes, Timothy J.; Hausmann, Robert G. M.; VanLehn, Kurt; Gershman, Sophia – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
Cognitive science principles should have implications for the design of effective learning environments. The self-explanation principle was chosen for the current work because it has developed significantly over the last 20 years. Early formulations hypothesized that self-explanation facilitated inference generation to supply missing information…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Physics, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science
Underwood, Sonia Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The heart of learning chemistry is the ability to connect a compound's structure to its function; Lewis structures provide an essential link in this process. In many cases, their construction is taught using an algorithmic approach, containing a set of step-by-step rules. We believe that this approach is in direct conflict with the precepts of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Design
Koc, Mustafa – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This study explored (a) pre-service teachers' perceptions of using concept mapping (CM) in one of their pedagogical courses, (b) the predictive power of such implementation in course achievement, and (c) the role of prior experience with CM, type of mapping, and gender on their perceptions and performances in CM and achievement. The subjects were…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
Principe, Gabrielle F.; Tinguely, Alison; Dobkowski, Nicholas – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
This study examined age differences in children's vulnerability to be misled by two types of false overheard rumors, namely a rumor that suggested a reasonable explanation for an earlier unresolved experience and a rumor that suggested an explanation that conflicted with information already in memory. Results indicated that all of the children…
Descriptors: Memory, Age Differences, Young Children, Deception
Easterday, Matthew W.; Aleven, Vincent; Scheines, Richard; Carver, Sharon M. – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
Policy problems like "What should we do about global warming?" are ill-defined in large part because we do not agree on a system to represent them the way we agree Algebra problems should be represented by equations. As a first step toward building a policy deliberation tutor, we investigated: (a) whether causal diagrams help students learn to…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Protocol Analysis, Tutors, Inferences

Buffler, Andy; Allie, Saalih; Lubben, Fred; Campbell, Bob – International Journal of Science Education, 2001
Discusses the results of a study that explored first year university students' ideas about measurement in the physics laboratory. Uses the 'point' and 'set' paradigms as a model to analyze responses to written probes. (Contains 21 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation