Formal explanations are statements that explain properties of an object by referring to its category. This study investigates the role of pragmatics in the evaluation of formal explanations. Across six experiments, we examined how a questioner's knowledge of category identity and an explanation's capability to specify a category affect…

The Carnegie Classifications have played a key role in shaping higher education, and they are foundational in a variety of research and policy uses nationwide. Over time, public perceptions of the classifications have become increasingly focused on the research designations despite efforts to expand on descriptions of other types of institutions.…

An important question is to know why the didactics of mathematics (DM) goes from being only teaching techniques to consolidate as a science and also to locate what kind of science it is. The objective of this article is, through a modern classification of sciences, such as the theory of categorial closure, to locate the DM. Likewise, a very brief…

An individual competence is one of the main human resources, which enables a person to operate in everyday life. A competence profile, formally captured and described as a structured model, may enable various operations, e.g., a more precise evaluation and closure of a training gap. Such application scenarios supported by information systems are…

Krazy Kat's iconic phrase "Lenguage is that we may mis-unda-stend each udda" (=language is that we may misunderstand each other) to Ignatz has been used and reproduced repeatedly to highlight George Herriman's comics around language and its functions. Such a phrase hides great truths when the interlocutors do not understand words with…

Visual diagrams are ubiquitous elements in science communication and science teaching. We can find them in texts from any area of knowledge. However, more studies are required to understand the mechanisms that make them useful tools for sharing information. This research, from an information design perspective, analyzes visual diagrams by…

The purpose of this contribution is two-fold: to look critically at the ways in which dominant sociology and psychology work with the questions of subjectivity and identity, and to ask how the new decolonisation movement in epistemology might assist in generating more capacious ways of approaching the questions of who we are as human beings. I…

Various studies in science education have concluded that successful science learning sometimes consists in students having two or more incompatible representations regarding a phenomenon. Specifically, a pluralist perspective acknowledges that such representational plurality is normal and even beneficial for the individual. Our working hypothesis…

Classifier systems constitute one of the most prominent features of East and South-East Asian languages (Li, 2013). Classifiers categorize referent nouns based on salient semantic features such as humanness, animacy, shape, or others (Aikhenvald and Mihas, 2019). The work described in this dissertation constitutes a thorough quantitative…

Detection of metal ions in solution has been performed without employing H[subscript 2]S or any other sulfide materials. The new method is free from the interference from anions. Identification of Na[superscript +], K[superscript +], and NH[subscript 4][superscript +] has been made possible directly from an aqueous extract of the sample mixture. A…

Understanding software modelers' difficulties and evaluating their performance is crucial to Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) education. The software modeling process contains fine-grained information about the modelers' analysis and thought processes. However, existing research primarily focuses on identifying obvious issues in the software…

Higher education institutions are increasingly aware of the importance of inclusive assessment, yet large-scale implementations of inclusive assessment policies and practices are rare. Why is it so tricky to design assessment that inclusively considers the diversity of students? This article argues that whilst trying to solve the problem of…

Teacher classroom teaching behavior indicators serve as a crucial foundation for guiding instructional evaluation. Existing indicator system suffers from limitations such as strong subjectivity and weak contextual generalization capabilities. Generalized category discovery (GCD) enables automatic data clustering to identify known categories and…

Designers are always pursuing design with suitable emotions. Effective emotional fusion not only produces a good user experience but also extends the product lifecycle. The decoding of design emotion and the use of design emotion language should run through the entire design process. In this study, we propose a new emotion-embedded design flow…

Underlying thematic analysis are a few fundamental human cognitive processes, such as categorizing, prototyping and metaphorical mapping. By unpacking these basic processes of human cognition, this paper hopes to provide a cognitive basis for thematic analysis as a foundational method in data analysis for qualitative research. In particular, it…