NDLI: Making models and reasoning with them

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bliss, Joan
Copyright Year	1997
Abstract	THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT Tools for Exploratory Learning Program. It is part of an ESRC National Initiative on Information Technology in Education which studied children’s modeling and reasoning with computational tools. The research involved creating both tasks and tools to investigate the quality and nature of pupils’ reasoning, when using three kinds of modelling tools (quantitative, qualitative, and semi-quantitative) in Expressive and Exploratory tasks. In the Expressive mode pupils created their own models and in the Exploratory mode they explored expert’s models. Three cross curricular topics for tasks were chosen: health, shops and profits, and traffic congestion.Average pupils, girls and boys between 11–14 years of age, worked in one mode of learning, on one topic with one modeling tool. Pupils were further asked to modify their own or other models and/or to build new ones. Data collection and analysis was qualitative.This paper focuses on semi-quantitative modeling in which the direction but not the numerical magnitude of effects of one part of a system on another is known. The study hypothesized that complex situations could be modeled using semi-quantitative arguments, much common sense reasoning being characterized in this manner. Our findings showed that young children between 11–14 could build reasonably complex models and reason with them when they were provided with a tool calling on their commonsense reasoning.
Starting Page	3
Ending Page	28
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10421726
Journal	Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	1997-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	modeling semi-quantitative expressive-learning exploratory-learning reasoning children Educational Technology Learning & Instruction Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education

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