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ERIC Number: EJ496589
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0888-6504
Students as Expert System Developers: A Means of Eliciting and Understanding Commonsense Reasoning.
Law, Nancy; Ogborn, Jon
Journal of Research on Computing in Education, v26 n4 p497-513 Sum 1994
Discussion of learners' prior knowledge focuses on a method for exploring common-sense reasoning by engaging secondary school students in the development of an expert system representing their own intuitive expertise. Students' intuitive concerns are discussed; patterns of reasoning are examined; and epistemic planes are described. (23 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Expert Systems, Intuition, Prior Learning, Programming, Secondary Education, Student Developed Materials, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Common Sense; Expertise