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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Chains of reasoning"”.
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Influence of collaborative group work on English language learner's oral narratives
… by a wordless picture book. The assessment of students’ story telling followed the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) conventions. Analysis of story transcripts indicated greater syntactic complexity and narrative cohesiveness in the stories produced by students who had …
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Understanding children’s causal reasoning during collaborative discussions
This study aims to understand the construction of multilink causal reasoning chains during collaborative discussions in elementary school classrooms. The construction of reasoning chains was investigated in 24 collaborative discussions involving 160 underserved fifth-grade children. The effects of …
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Interactive visualizations to improve Bayesian reasoning
Proper Bayesian reasoning is critical across a broad swath of domains that require practitioners to make predictions about the probability of events contingent upon earlier actions or events. However, much research on judgment has shown that people who are unfamiliar with Bayes’ Theorem often …
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Integrating ontologies and argumentation for decision-making in breast cancer
This thesis describes some of the problems in providing care for patients with breast cancer. These are then used to motivate the development of an extension to an existing theory of argumentation, which I call the Ontology-based Argumentation Formalism (OAF). The work is assessed in both …