ED440122 - How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice.
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Instructionally supportive accountability tests (a) measure students' mastery of only a modest number of extraordinarily important curricular aims;(b) describe what is to be assessed in clear, teacher-palatable language;... more
Instructionally supportive accountability tests (a) measure students' mastery of only a modest number of extraordinarily important curricular aims;(b) describe what is to be assessed in clear, teacher-palatable language; and (c) report each student's results for every curricular ...
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Recent research suggests that dynamic spatial reasoning tasks show more robust gender differences than static spatial reasoning tasks. These differences have implications for selection procedures based on aptitude test scores. Two... more
Recent research suggests that dynamic spatial reasoning tasks show more robust gender differences than static spatial reasoning tasks. These differences have implications for selection procedures based on aptitude test scores. Two experiments were therefore designed to examine the locus of such gender differences. In Experiment 1, 82 males and 82 females performed two separate tasks: judging the relative velocity of moving objects and judging their relative distances from target destinations. Significant gender differences occurred only for relative velocity judgments and were partially related to prior experience. A second experiment therefore tested the effects of practice and feedback on performance judging relative velocity. Male and female performance differences were again found, and performance improved equally as a result of feedback. Consistent with contemporary views of aptitude and assessment, the data suggest that equitable assessment of dynamic spatial abilities requires a determination of experiential history and learning rates as well as absolute performance levels.
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Lists of high or low taxonomic frequency were divided into six four-item sets held constant across successive trials. The sets varied across conditions in the number of categorical repetitions per set (none, one, two, or three), and the... more
Lists of high or low taxonomic frequency were divided into six four-item sets held constant across successive trials. The sets varied across conditions in the number of categorical repetitions per set (none, one, two, or three), and the items within the sets were presented successively or simultaneously. The purpose was to see whether the facilitative effect of blocked presentation was the result of input order focusing attention to semantic structure, or vice versa. The data indicate that it was the former. The results are interpreted as support of the general position that input order acts as a moderator variable and semantic structure as the primary determinant of performance.
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Page 1. Developmental and Individual Differences in Verbal Analogical Reasoning Susan R. Goldman and James W. Pellegrino University of California, Santa Barbara Patricia Parseghian and Rita Sallis University of Pittsburgh ...
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Formative assessment, in which the assessment is integrated within instruction and aimed at increasing learning, can replace summative assessment in many situations. Two programs of formative assessment are described: DIANOSER and SMART.
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Page 1. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1996, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1218-1248 Acquisition and Transfer of Skilled Performance: Are Visual Discrimination Skills Stimulus Specific? Stephanie M. Doane... more
Page 1. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1996, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1218-1248 Acquisition and Transfer of Skilled Performance: Are Visual Discrimination Skills Stimulus Specific? Stephanie M. Doane University of Illinois ...
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Psychology and Déjà Vu
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BackgroundConcept inventories (CIs) are commonly used in engineering disciplines to assess students' conceptual understanding and to evaluate instruction, but educators often use CIs without sufficient evidence that a structured... more
BackgroundConcept inventories (CIs) are commonly used in engineering disciplines to assess students' conceptual understanding and to evaluate instruction, but educators often use CIs without sufficient evidence that a structured approach has been applied to validate inferences about student thinking.PurposeWe propose an analytic framework for evaluating the validity arguments of CIs. We focus on three types of claims: that CI scores enable one to infer (1) students' overall understanding of all concepts identified in the CI, (2) students' understanding of specific concepts, and (3) students' propensity for misconceptions or common errors.MethodWe applied our analytic framework to three CIs: the Concept Assessment Tool for Statics (CATS), the Statistics Concept Inventory (SCI), and the Dynamics Concept Inventory (DCI).ResultsUsing our analytic framework, we found varying degrees of support for each type of claim. CATS and DCI analyses indicated that the CIs could reli...
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A key challenge in shaping science learning for the future will be to develop new measures of learning that take into account what it means to be proficient in science (Pellegrino, 2013). The emergent view on proficiency, grounded in... more
A key challenge in shaping science learning for the future will be to develop new measures of learning that take into account what it means to be proficient in science (Pellegrino, 2013). The emergent view on proficiency, grounded in learning sciences research, emphasises using and applying knowledge in the context of disciplinary practice. Referred to as knowledge-in-use, this perspective on science proficiency is a centrepiece of the United States’ National Research Council’s (NRC) Framework for K–12 Science Education (NRC, 2012), embodied in the new US national standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) and emphasised in the recently released NRC report on developing assessments to measure science proficiency (Pellegrino, Wilson, Koenig & Beatty, 2014). Central to this view is that disciplinary content — both disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts — and practice should be integrated. This would mean that as students apply knowledge to make sense of phenomena and solve problems...
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In the last decades, the chemical engineering field has expanded and now encompasses other diverse fields such as pharmaceutical, renewable energy, nanoparticles, food products, and safety. However, the chemical engineering curriculum has... more
In the last decades, the chemical engineering field has expanded and now encompasses other diverse fields such as pharmaceutical, renewable energy, nanoparticles, food products, and safety. However, the chemical engineering curriculum has not evolved at the same pace. Thus, the gap between industry needs and competencies developed in chemical engineering (CHE) programs has grown. To adequately address this problem, the authors' goal is to synergize industry-student-academia and to enculturate classrooms with industry. Implementation of this model is particularly essential in the early years of the curriculum. As the first step, the authors aim to design and incorporate up-to-date industry problems into "Materials and Energy Balance" as a course assignment. The authors of this paper have been working with industry mentors from various areas of the chemical engineering field to design up-to-date application-based problems/projects for the selected CHE class. Five industr...
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Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Computer Science, and 15 moreBlindness, Locomotion, Adolescent, Medicine, Problem Solving, Proprioception, Humans, Orientation, Female, Male, Distance Perception, Path Integral Dynamics, Middle Aged, Adult, and Path Integral
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ED243781 - Analyzing Aptitudes for Learning: Inductive Reasoning.