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Tarcilo Torres
Effects of Scientific Information Format on the Comprehension Self-Monitoring Processes: Question Generation // Efectos del formato en que se presenta la información científica sobre la autorregulación de los procesos de comprensión...
Generating questions is a regulatory action associated with self-monitoring processes in comprehension tasks: subjects can ask information seeking questions to solve comprehension obstacles. A sequence of two related experiments were conducted to trigger, classify and analyse questions asked under different conditions: reading a text about experimental scientific devices operating, watching these devices in a DVD and manipulating them in the LAB. Students’ information seeking questions were classified using a simple taxonomy. Taking into account the multimedia learning principles, the advantages of realistic animations for understanding time-depending processes and the effect of the procedu…
Effects of Scientific Information Format on the Comprehension Self-Monitoring Processes: Question Generation
RESUMEN: Formular preguntas es una de las acciones asociadas con procesos metacognitivos de regulación durante tareas de comprensión: los sujetos pueden generar preguntas destinadas a obtener información para salvar obstáculos de comprensión. Se realizaron dos experimentos para estimular, clasificar y analizar las preguntas de los estudiantes en tres condiciones diferentes: leer sobre el funcionamiento de dispositivos científicos experimentales, observarlos en un DVD o manipularlos en el Laboratorio. Las preguntas fueron clasificadas usando una taxonomía sencilla. Teniendo en cuenta los principios multimedia de aprendizaje, las ventajas de imágenes realistas animadas para el aprendizaje de …
A Cognitive model to analyse physics and chemistry problem-solving skills: mental representations implied in solving actions
In physics and chemistry, the development of problem-solving skills is necessary to become an expert. A simple cognitive model to analyse such development is proposed and tested. An exploratory research was conducted with expert professors and students in initial and advanced years. A think aloud procedure was used to obtain relevant data while the participants tried to solve undefined, open problems. Solving these problems required a particular skill representative of expertise: modelling reality using science. More than 1350 solving actions were collected and related to the mental representations elaborated, developed and inter-related by solvers. The proposed model was able to account fo…
Generating students' information seeking questions in the scholar lab: what benefits can we expect from inquiry teaching approaches?
ABSTARCT: Physics teachers use experimental devices to show students how scientific concepts, principles, and laws are applied to understand the real world. This paper studies question generation of secondary and under-graduate university students when they are confronted with experimental devices in different but usual teaching situations: reading about devices while studying still images or diagrams, watching an experimental demonstration, and handling the devices in the laboratory. The influence of the prior scientific knowledge on the questions asked is also analysed. Inquiry learning environments, involving lab projects, seemed to stimulate more inferences addressed to causality when s…