Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Meta-analysis, Similarity, and Hierarchy

Kind of interesting.  Generalization can be based on hierarchies (categories) or similarities.  I've thought about trying to come up with some similarity metric for meta-analysis, where studies are obviously more or less similar to each other, but not categorically related, or at least the hierarchies are extremely sparse (most categories have zero instances).

Properties of inductive reasoning

The structure and function of explanation

Explanation during IHD simulation

Tamar: Fonseca and Chi: if they explain themselves during a learning task they learn better than those who think out loud, especially going beyond presented material. Might be neat for IHD sim.  Might need to come up with tests that are `far transfer'.

"Instruction based self-explanation"
 
 Handbook of research on learning and instruction