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Law, Nancy – 1988
Knowledge elicitation through programming was studied to determine students' intuitive ideas about motion. The subjects, 17-year-old sixth-form science students and 14-year-old third-form students, were asked to write expert systems programs about motion; and their interactions with their own knowledge were observed. The 17-year-old students had…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Download full textMerrill, Douglas C.; Reiser, Brian J. – 1994
External representations have a great impact on what and how students learn. One key manner in which environments can operate upon novices' knowledge is through helping them ground their problem solving in an understanding of the situation embodied by the problem. In this paper, students' difficulties in microeconomics problem solving were…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Structures, Diagrams, Difficulty Level
