NDLI: Developing techniques for measuring and enhancing students' cognitive and metacognitive skills

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Staats, W.J. Dean, D. Miles, D. Blum, T. Ssu-yu Lu
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput., Charleston Coll., SC, USA (Staats, W.J.)
Abstract	While previous work established that some self-report measures of metacognition correlate highly with programming and other CS skills [(Blum, T.L., et al., 1999) (Blum, T.L. and Staats, W.J., 1999)], the current pilot project seeks to develop a behavioral task measure of metacognition and to use exercises modeled on this behavioral task to teach and enhance metacognitive skills. These exercises, based on work by Deanna Kuhn at Columbia University, are to be incorporated in an undergraduate computer science program for the purpose of enhancing cognitive and metacognitive skills that have been identified as important for computer scientists [(Blum, T.L., et al., 1999) (Blum, T.L. and Staats, W.J., 1999)]. First, the pilot study established a baseline comparison between the MSI [(Blum, T.L., et al., 1999) (Blum, T.L. and Staats, W.J., 1999) (Miles, D, et al., 2003)] and one of Kuhn's most widely used causal inferencing tasks [(Kuhn, D, et al., 2000) (Kuhn, D, et al., 1995)], dubbed the "boat-races" (BOATS) task. Second, the pilot study established a baseline comparison between the BOATS model task and several domain-specific tasks developed by the researchers; these domain specific tasked were modeled after the ones developed by Kuhn. Regression analyses were performed, using the BOATS (domain independent) task, the MSI [(Blum, T.L., et al., 1999) (Blum, T.L. and Staats, W.J., 1999)] scores, and the [Miles, D.E, 1998] scores as predictor variables and performance on the newly created domain-specific tasks as criterion variables. While none of the individual component variables was found to be predictive of exercise task performance, the overall model was significant for at least two of the three domain-specific tasks. Continued research will use these task scores as predictors and computer science task performance as criterion variables. Should the exercise prove predictive, they will be used as training tools to develop metacognitive skill.
Sponsorship	IEEE Educ. Soc. IEEE Comput. Soc. American Soc. for Eng. Educ. (Educ. Res. and Method Div.)
File Size	467073
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780379616
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2003.1263323
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-11-05
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Boats Computer science Operating systems Software design Debugging Psychology System testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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