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Mixed Membership Distributions with Applications to Modeling Multiple Strategy Usage
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Galyardt, April – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines two related questions. "How do mixed membership models work?" and "Can mixed membership be used to model how students use multiple strategies to solve problems?". Mixed membership models have been used in thousands of applications from text and image processing to genetic microarray analysis. Yet…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, Models, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving
Physics Students' Performance Using Computational Modelling Activities to Improve Kinematics Graphs Interpretation
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Araujo, Ives Solano; Veit, Eliane Angela; Moreira, Marco Antonio – Computers & Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate undergraduate students' performance while exposed to complementary computational modelling activities to improve physics learning, using the software "Modellus." Interpretation of kinematics graphs was the physics topic chosen for investigation. The theoretical framework adopted was based on Halloun's…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Undergraduate Students
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (10th, Wuhan, China, June 25-28, 2017)
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use
Generative Connectionist Networks and Constructivist Cognitive Development.
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Mareschal, Denis; Shultz, Thomas R. – Cognitive Development, 1996
Presents a computational framework for modeling cognitive development that provides a language paradigm with which to compare and contrast different facets of children's knowledge. Describes the generative connectionist algorithm "cascade-correlation," the successful use of the algorithm to model cognitive development in various…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
The Role of the Number-After Rule in the Invention of Computational Shortcuts.
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Baroody, Arthur J. – Cognition and Instruction, 1995
Focuses on a single case study of a mentally handicapped child to examine directly the relation between the development of number-after rules and a counting-on from the larger addend (COL) strategy. Examines the development of children's proficiency with n+ and 1+n combinations and the evolution of their counting-on strategies over time. (AA)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Computation
Invented Strategies Can Develop Meaningful Mathematical Procedures.
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Carroll, William M.; Porter, Denise – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
Describes teaching strategies in which children are encouraged to develop computational procedures that are meaningful to them. Authors state that classroom observation reveals most primary students to be capable of developing their own accurate solution procedures for multi-digit addition and subtraction as well as for simple multiplication and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Associative Learning, Computation, Cooperative Learning
The Learning of Mathematics: 69th NCTM Yearbook [2007 NCTM Yearbook (69th)]
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2007
Learning mathematics is the central goal of mathematics education, yet it is the least frequently addressed of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM's) Principles and Standards. With an increasing population of English language learners and the inclusion of students with learning disabilities into the regular mathematics…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Inclusive Schools