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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Procedural knowledge"”.
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Development of Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge in Preschoolers' Addition and Subtraction
… to construct relations between conceptual and procedural knowledge. However, we still do not have full knowledge about the underlying processes. Understanding of this issue will help researchers not only in building theories of knowledge acquisition but also in designing appropriate …
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A comparison of video and illustrated audio as an instructional tool
… examines the differences in the acquisition of procedural knowledge between the utilization of video versus illustrated audio as an instructional tool. One hundred and forty-five students from two major southwestern universities participated in the study. Results indicate that there are no …
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"Measuring ""To Think Mathematically"": Cognitive Characterization of Achievement Levels in Performance-Based Assessment"
… of achievement levels, such as good conceptual knowledge with poor procedural knowledge, good procedural knowledge with poor conceptual knowledge, or good communicating skills with poor mathematical understanding. Therefore, holistic scores are not sufficient to identify achievement levels. Five …
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Effect of incremental pattern transformation strategy on academic achievement, job task performance and learning satisfaction among vocational trainees
Acquisition of conceptual and procedural knowledge is often challenging especially when the content deals with symbolic representations whereas not limited to memorizing the symbol but also requires a learner to have multiple factual knowledge associated with the real representation. The aim of …
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Students' approaches to mathematical tasks using software as a black-box, glass-box or open-box
… classified based on the level of conceptual and procedural knowledge needed for solving: mechanical tasks required procedural knowledge, interpretive tasks required conceptual knowledge; and constructive tasks used both conceptual and procedural knowledge. The results indicated that the …
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An examination of the employment of the pair programming methodology as a collaborative instructional scaffold on college student procedural learning and programming self-beliefs
… instructional scaffold on student programming procedural knowledge and programming-related self-beliefs in an introductory computer programming course offered at a large university located in the Midwestern United States. Employing a design research theoretical perspective in a natural …
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The role of cultural sensitivity and trust in relational marketing: an analysis of buyer/seller relationships in the Asian Pacific Rim
… sensitivity emerged: (1) cultural declarative knowledge, (2) etic (outsiders') procedural knowledge, (3) emic (insiders') procedural knowledge, and (4) environmental scanning. In addition, the process of cultural sensitivity was found to have the following four stages: (1) The Honeymooner; (2) …
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Agent problem solving by inductive and deductive program synthesis
… recognize two types of concepts, declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge: know-what and know-how. While much work has focused on unsupervised learning of declarative concepts as clusters of features, there is much less clarity on the representation for procedural concepts and the …
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A Conversational Agent for Dynamic Procedural Interactions
… through a procedure. Prior work in automating procedural guidance either concentrates on how to communicate instructions or how to reason about procedural knowledge to extract states of entities. In this work, we present an end-to-end procedural voice guidance system that automatically …
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Declarative and Procedural Current Job Knowledge as Predictors of Performance in Emerging Military Jobs
… Index) were used to examine the declarative and procedural knowledge shared between current military jobs (n = 256) and three jobs required to operate Uninhabited Aerospace Vehicles. Job analysts (n = 35) provided job similarity ratings by comparing three emerging jobs with the current job …
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An exploration of the measurement of resilience in palliative care workers
… resources, palliative care workers identified procedural knowledge as a key resilience resource. Therefore, the fourth and final study presents the development and validation of a situational judgment test designed to measure a procedural knowledge resource associated with resilience in …
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A cultural-historical analysis of Grade 9 History curriculum and its pedagogical resources for learners' conceptual development
… textbooks and teachers' guides) outline knowledge focused on concept development in learners. The development of concepts requires learners' mediation in the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) where consideration and subsequent linkage of three knowledge forms namely: scientific concepts, …
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POSIT: Process Oriented Subtraction-Interface for Tutoring
… describes the interaction of declarative and procedural knowledge (procedural knowledge is dependent on declarative knowledge), this learning theory is ideally suited to the learning of a specific procedure. Further, other "intelligent" systems which have been applied to subtraction (Brown & …
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Evaluating Knowledge of a Function-based Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… vignette, this thesis attempted to examine procedural knowledge that the children and their parents gained while participating in a CBT treatment that was evaluated in a Randomized Controlled Trial. For both parents and children, there was a significant increase in number of strategies …
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Literacy Coaching: Approaches, Styles, and Conversations
… most helpful to construct conceptual and procedural knowledge when they include opportunities for on-going collaboration, teacher autonomy, and active construction of knowledge, and when they occur in classrooms settings with practice and feedback. These findings have implications for why …
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Cognitive genre prototype modelling and its implications for the teaching of academic writing to learners of English as a second language
… to involve cognitive frameworks that organise knowledge (see Chapter 4). Chapter 4 reviews cognitive approaches to the classification of knowledge and seeks to establish the centrality of knowledge-organising prototypes and prototype-internal, procedural knowledge and to relate these to the …
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The effect of explicit vocabulary instruction using specialized graphic organizers in secondary mathematics for students with disabilities
… a clear and distinct difference in the levels of knowledge versus levels of understanding when measuring the ability of a student to reach mastery of a concept in the educational environment. Increased levels of rigor in today's classroom exhibit the necessity of a paradigm shift related effective …
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Students As Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model's Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy
… historical narrative inquiry model (1) teaches procedural knowledge (the process of "doing" history); (2) enhances interpretative skills; (3) cultivates historical perspectives based upon evidentiary history; and (4) encourages student authorship of historical narratives. In the fall semester of …
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Hand-Held Cognition: Does Learning Suffer When an External Representation Interface Style is Used?
… found that for planning, understanding and knowledge tasks, external representations did not significantly improve task performance and that declarative knowledge was better aided by internal representation. This study hypothesized that declarative knowledge would be significantly enhanced …
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