Computer-Based Learning Environments and Problem Solving

✍ Scribed by Jan J. Elshout (auth.), Erik De Corte, Marcia C. Linn, Heinz Mandl, Lieven Verschaffel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 491
• Series: NATO ASI Series 84
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most would agree that the acquisition of problem-solving ability is a primary goal of education. The emergence of the new information technologiesin the last ten years has raised high expectations with respect to the possibilities of the computer as an instructional tool for enhancing students' problem-solving skills. This volume is the first to assemble, review, and discuss the theoretical, methodological, and developmental knowledge relating to this topical issue in a multidisciplinary confrontation of highly recommended experts in cognitive science, computer science, educational technology, and instructional psychology. Contributors describe the most recent results and the most advanced methodological approaches relating to the application of the computer for encouraging knowledge construction, stimulating higher-order thinking and problem solving, and creating powerfullearning environments for pursuing those objectives. The computer applications relate to a variety of content domains and age levels.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Formal Education Versus Everyday Learning....Pages 5-17
Images of Learning....Pages 19-40
An Architecture for Collaborative Knowledge Building....Pages 41-66
How Do Lisp Programmers Draw on Previous Experience to Solve Novel Problems?....Pages 67-101
Analysis-based Learning on Multiple Levels of Mental Domain Representation....Pages 103-127
Modeling Active, Hypothesis-Driven Learning From Worked-Out Examples....Pages 129-148
Fostering Conceptual Change: The Role of Computer-Based Environments....Pages 149-162
Computers in a Community of Learners....Pages 163-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-192
Teaching for Transfer of Problem-Solving Skills to Computer Programming....Pages 193-206
Cognitive Effects of Learning to Program in Logo: A One-Year Study With Sixth Graders....Pages 207-228
The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Higher-Order Thinking in Logo Environments....Pages 229-248
Effects with and of computers and the study of computer-based learning environments....Pages 249-263
Facilitating Domain-General Problem Solving: Computers, Cognitive Processes and Instruction....Pages 265-285
Conceptual Fields, Problem Solving and Intelligent Computer Tools....Pages 287-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-312
Augmenting the Discourse of Learning with Computer-Based Learning Environments....Pages 313-343
Scientific Reasoning Across Different Domains....Pages 345-371
A Rule-Based Diagnosis System for Identifying Misconceptions in Qualitative Reasoning in the Physical Domain “Superposition of Motion”....Pages 373-389
The Provision of Tutorial Support for Learning with Computer-Based Simulations....Pages 391-409
Learning and Instruction with Computer Simulations: Learning Processes Involved....Pages 411-427
Two Uses of Computers in Science Teaching: Horizontal Motion Simulation and Simulation Building....Pages 429-443
Front Matter....Pages 309-312
Direct Manipulation of Physical Concepts in a Computerized Exploratory Laboratory....Pages 445-464
Multimedia Learning Environments Designed with Organizing Principles from Non-School Settings....Pages 465-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-488

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematics, general; Engineering, general