Accession Number:

ADA247058

Title:

Schemas in Problem Solving: An Integrated Model of Learning, Memory, and Instruction

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Oct 1989-31 Dec 1991

Corporate Author:

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIV CA CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

Personal Author(s):

• Marshall, Sandra P.

Report Date:

1992-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

61.0

Abstract:

This final report contains two papers. The first describes statistical and cognitive models used to simulate student performance. The statistical model provides information about how the group of students as a whole performed on an identification task involving word-problem situations and shows differences among subgroups. The cognitive model is a connectionist network that simulates the performance of each student and yields details about how learning varied from one individual to another. The second paper outlines a hybrid model of schema knowledge that joins a connectionist network with a production system. Details of the model are provided, and an example of its output is presented. cognitive model, problem solving, hybrid model.

Descriptors:

• *MODELS
• STUDENTS
• NETWORKS
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• PROBLEM SOLVING
• IDENTIFICATION
• LEARNING

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE