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Martin, Lee; Schwartz, Daniel L. – Cognition and Instruction, 2009
An important element of adaptive expertise involves stepping away from a routine to retool one's knowledge or environment. The current study investigated two forms of this adaptive pattern: fault-driven adaptations, which are reactions to a difficulty, and prospective adaptations, which are proactive reformulations. Graduate and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis
Evans, Vyvyan – Language Learning, 2008
Recent work addressing the phenomenon of perceptual simulation offers new and exciting avenues of investigating how to model knowledge representation. From the perspective of language, the simulation approach has given rise to new impetus to work on models of language understanding (e.g., Zwaan, 2004, and references therein), and provides a way of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Role, Knowledge Representation, Language Processing
Zhang, Pengyi – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this thesis is to improve our understanding of sensemaking process as a basis for building better systems to assist sensemaking. Sensemaking is the task of creating an understanding of a problem or task so that further actions may be taken in an informed manner. Sensemaking is a pre-requisite for many other tasks such as decision…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Concept Mapping, Protocol Analysis, Cognitive Structures
Knauf, Rainer; Sakurai, Yoshitaka; Tsuruta, Setsuo; Jantke, Klaus P. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
University education often suffers from a lack of an explicit and adaptable didactic design. Students complain about the insufficient adaptability to the learners' needs. Learning content and services need to reach their audience according to their different prerequisites, needs, and different learning styles and conditions. A way to overcome such…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, College Instruction, Educational Experiments, Cognitive Style
Caravantes, Arturo; Galan, Ramon – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
The interoperability of educational systems, encouraged by the development of specifications, standards and tools related to the Semantic Web is limited to the exchange of information in domain and student models. High system interoperability requires that a common framework be defined that represents the functional essence of educational systems.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Representation, Feasibility Studies, Cognitive Processes
Colace, Francesco; De Santo, Massimo; Gaeta, Matteo – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The development of adaptable and intelligent educational systems is widely considered one of the great challenges in scientific research. Among key elements for building advanced training systems, an important role is played by methodologies chosen for knowledge representation. In this scenario, the introduction of ontology formalism can…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Knowledge Representation, Bayesian Statistics, Mathematics
Kohl, Patrick B.; Finkelstein, Noah D. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2008
It is generally believed that students should use multiple representations in solving certain physics problems, and earlier work in PER has begun to outline how experts and novices differ in their use of multiple representations. In this study, we build on this foundation by interviewing expert and novice physicists as they solve two types of…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Knowledge Representation, Expertise
Tarlow, Lynn D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2008
This article describes a mathematics session in which students explored a challenging combinatorics task, a topic shown to be difficult for students when taught traditionally. The students developed a progression of personal representations, increasingly symbolic and abstract, which they used to find a solution and justification. (Contains 8…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, After School Programs, Knowledge Representation
Abramovich, Sergei – PRIMUS, 2009
This article reflects on the author's experience in teaching courses in mathematics content and methods in teacher preparation programs. It shows how technology-enhanced inquiry into a seemingly mundane task on situated addition found in a popular textbook for prospective elementary teachers, can reveal hidden properties of integers associated…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Hidden Curriculum, Teacher Education Curriculum
Guernsey, Lisa – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Computers may not be able to master poetics like Aristotle, but they have become smart enough to know a metaphor when they see one. An online database called The Mind Is a Metaphor, created by Brad Pasanek, an assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia, is a searchable bank of phrases, verses, and lines from literature that…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Databases, Computers, Online Systems
Kirschenbaum, Matthew – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The author advocates that humanities scholars should seek and study programming languages. He believes that, increasingly, an appreciation of how complex ideas can be imagined and expressed as a set of formal procedures--rules, models, algorithms--in the virtual space of a computer will be an essential element of a humanities education. Students…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Student Motivation, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Mediated Communication
Barmby, Patrick; Harries, Tony; Higgins, Steve; Suggate, Jennifer – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
We examine whether the array representation can support children's understanding and reasoning in multiplication. To begin, we define what we mean by understanding and reasoning. We adopt a "representational-reasoning" model of understanding, where understanding is seen as connections being made between mental representations of concepts, with…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Multiplication, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Logic
Zhou, Xinlin; Chen, Chuansheng; Chen, Lan; Dong, Qi – Cognition, 2008
Whether two-digit numbers are represented holistically (each digit pair processed as one number) or compositionally (each digit pair processed separately as a decade digit and a unit digit) remains unresolved. Two experiments were conducted to examine the distance, magnitude, and SNARC effects in a number-matching task involving two-digit numbers.…
Descriptors: Numbers, Measurement Techniques, Number Systems, Number Concepts
Lai, Yuan – Exceptionality Education International, 2009
While conceptualizations of giftedness have been broadened to include many forms of giftedness, a reconceptualization of gifted programs has not followed. The paper argues that the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education, combining important features of the fields of early childhood education and gifted education, is a good fit for…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Knowledge Representation
Yang, Yu-Fen; Wong, Wing-Kwong; Yeh, Hui-Chin – Computers & Education, 2009
Referential identification and resolution are considered the keys to help readers grasp the main idea of a text and solve lexical ambiguities. The goal of this study is to design a computer system for helping college students who learn English as a Foreign Language (EFL) develop mental maps of referential identification and resolution in reading.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Knowledge Representation, Concept Mapping