Applying artificial intelligence insights in a CAI program for “open sentence” mathematical problems in primary schools     

Yvonne F. Barnard  Jacobijn A. C. Sandberg 《Instructional Science》1988,17(3):263-276

Elementary school children are often unclear which operations to use when tackling mathematical problems of the open sentence kind (e.g. 3+*=7). We give details of (a) some of their impasse-repair and other problem-solving strategies; (b) computer models of knowledge and misconceptions underlying those strategies; and (c) a CAI program which can identify strategies and remedy gaps in knowledge and misconceptions. Tests of that program with second graders in five schools over six weeks indicate that one third profited significantly. The results are further discussed.1. Jacobijn A. C. Sandberg, is now at the Department of Social Science Informatics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Note  相似文献   

RESEARCHING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A SCIENCE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROGRAMME USING A PROPOSED CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FOR SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY     

Kathryn Paige  Yvonne Zeegers  David Lloyd  Philip Roetman 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2016,14(1):149-175

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Undergraduates’ perception and engagement in Facebook learning groups     

Yvonne Hong  Lesley Gardner 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2019,50(4):1831-1845

This study presents and evaluates the educational potentials that Social Network Services (SNS) offer to students in the higher education context. The first aim of this study is to explore students’ perceptions of Facebook Learning Groups (ie, Facebook Groups that were created for learning purposes), and the learning and affective benefits that SNS offer to students. This study further explores the influence of four identified factors (ie, self-efficacy, privacy, trust and presence of teaching members) in moderating students’ perception and learning engagements on SNS. Findings from an online survey demonstrate the usefulness of these learning groups. Trust and presence of teaching members were also indicated to have significant influences in affecting students’ perception and engagement in Facebook Learning Groups.  相似文献   

Internationalisation and distance education: a Hong Kong case study     

Maurice Craft  Ronnie Carr  Yvonne Fung 《International Journal of Educational Development》1998,18(6):467-472

The accelerating globalisation of world economic relations has been paralleled by a progressive internationalisation of higher education, including the use of distance education. But the modification of distance education materials and the provision of local tutorial support are only rarely undertaken, despite the fact that in social science and the humanities such materials are culturally saturated. This Hong Kong case study in teacher education examines the issues, describes the opportunities and difficulties involved, and argues that cultural adaptation merits a higher priority than at present.  相似文献   

One Teacher Trainer's Perspective on a Sample of Academic Educational Research Papers     

Yvonne Salmons 《Educational studies》2000,26(2):229-245

In this study a teacher trainer analyses 56 papers from the journal Educational Studies and, applying specific criteria, determines the extent to which their content can be said to have applications to and implications for educational practice. Section 1 of the study explores the general context of the sample papers. Findings here show that in this set of papers the academic research is conducted and written almost exclusively by staff within Schools of Education in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); that the authorship includes a higher proportion of males than females; that research style is mainly empirical and that gender may play a role in the research style itself; and, significantly for this study, that the titles of these papers, when considered exclusively, imply a close association with the classroom context. In Section 2, a systematic scrutiny of the content of a sub-sample of the papers reveals a significant trend of potential, as opposed to actual relevance to educational policy and practice—at variance with the findings for the study of their titles alone in Section 1. Additional findings are that there is little evidence in the papers of direct collaboration between HEIs and schools. Finally, Section 3 contains the author's personal reflections on communication of the research message within the sample and ways are suggested in which the writing in academic journals generally might be made 'barrier-free' to the wider educational community. Concluding comments tend to be made as appropriate within the body of the paper at the point of discussion. The main conclusion briefly considers the role of Initial Teacher Training tutors in Higher Education, and the issue of monitoring language and communication style in academic research.  相似文献   

Young Children's Spatial Representations Developed through Exploration of a Desktop Virtual Reality Scene     

Silvia Gabrielli  Yvonne Rogers  Mike Scaife 《Education and Information Technologies》2000,5(4):251-262

Virtual Reality (VR) technology seems to offer the opportunity of designing 3D worlds and navigation activities which provide settings that are close to children's everyday experiences, capitalising on their enthusiasm for videogame-like technologies.This paper describes how different types of exploration of a VR scene by 6[emsp4 ]y-old children affected their performance in a series of spatial tasks. Individual children explored a desktop virtual world where we varied both the visual perspective on the VR scene (route vs. survey view) and the level of exploration control (active vs. passive movement). We measured children's knowledge of the spatial layout of the environment through their memory of objects' location in the virtual scene and through the analysis of their wayfinding abilities within the scene.The results indicate that children were able to develop and display different levels of allocentric knowledge about the virtual world depending on the way they had familiarized with it and on the characteristics of the task demands. This finding contributes to inform the design of VR technologies aimed at supporting or evaluating spatial abilities in children of this age.  相似文献   

Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions     

David Turnbull  Henry Krips  Val Dusek  Steve Fuller  Alan Sokal  Jean Bricmont  Alan Frost  Alan Chalmers  Anna Salleh  Alfred I. Tauber  Yvonne Luxford  Nicolaas Rupke  Steven French  Peter G. Brown  Hugh LaFollette  Peter Machamer  Nicolas Rasmussen  Andy J. Miller  Marya Schechtman  Ross S. West  John Forge  David Oldroyd  Nancy Demand  Darrin W. Belousek  Warren Schmaus  Sungook Hong  Alan Chalmers  Rachel A. Ankeny  Peter Anstey  Jeremy Butterfield  Harshi Gunawardena 《Metascience》2000,9(3):347-498

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Reviews     

Kim Sterelny  John Forge  Ivan Crozier  Sverre Myhra  Randall Albury  Steve Clarke  Yvonne Luxford  David Philip Miller  Lynn K. Nyhart  Mary Chan  Richard McDonough  Peter J. Riggs  Allan Franklin  Robert Nola  David Bloor  Mark Cortiula  Thomas Nickles  David Oldroyd  Nicolas Rasmussen  John Forge  William A. S. Sarjeant 《Metascience》1998,7(2):331-418

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Mexican American and European American College Students' Beliefs About Causes,Cures, and Sources of Help for Anxiety     

Donald R. Atkinson  Jos M. Abreu  Yvonne Ortiz-Bush  Scott Brewer 《Journal of College Counseling》1998,1(1):66-80

Mexican American and European American college students rated an empirically derived list of the causes, cures, and sources of help for anxiety. Main effects were obtained for ethnicity on ratings related to cures and one source of help for anxiety. There were also significant differences in ratings of cause and cure beliefs for anxiety between men and women. Level of acculturation, however, was not found to be related to ratings among the Mexican American participants.  相似文献   

Interpreting young people's self-expression through characters and relationships in collaborative creative writing     

Eloise De Carvalho  Yvonne Skipper 《Support for Learning》2022,37(1):144-160

White Water Writers is an intervention that offers school pupils the opportunity to collaboratively write a novel in a week. The current study uses thematic analysis to interpret the voices of young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities through the characters and relationships created in this fictional writing. The main themes derived from the data were: heroism and villainy, associated with characteristics such as responsibility and control; fictional powers, linking to personal agency; social relations, including positive relationships with peers and authority figures; and anthropomorphism, for exploring new emotions and interactions between humans and animals. This suggests that creative writing may be a useful lens through which to explore young people's views of their lived experiences.  相似文献