Students as Expert System Developers: A Means of Eliciting and Understanding Commonsense Reasoning.

Law, Nancy; Ogborn, Jon

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ERIC Number: EJ496589

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Publication Date: 1994

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Students as Expert System Developers: A Means of Eliciting and Understanding Commonsense Reasoning.

Law, Nancy; Ogborn, Jon

Journal of Research on Computing in Education, v26 n4 p497-513 Sum 1994

Discussion of learners' prior knowledge focuses on a method for exploring common-sense reasoning by engaging secondary school students in the development of an expert system representing their own intuitive expertise. Students' intuitive concerns are discussed; patterns of reasoning are examined; and epistemic planes are described. (23 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Epistemology, Expert Systems, Intuition, Prior Learning, Programming, Secondary Education, Student Developed Materials, Thinking Skills

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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