The work reported here has been led in a collaboration which took place in the framework of "taskforce 1: Representation Change" of a european project "Learning in Humans and Machines" sponsored by the European Science Foundation during the years 1994-97. This interdisciplinary and international collaboration has gathered Psychologists and Education Scientists, who collected and analyzed data about the knowledge of students in elementary mechanics, and who hypothesized mental models explaining the data; Computer Scientists specialized in Knowledge Representation who designed a language tailored to express the above models; and Computer Scientists specialized in Machine Learning, who investigated the behaviour of two systems on (part of) the data collected, and evaluated the relevance of the formal study of theory revision to the modelization of the conceptual changes that take place in students.
Modelling conceptual changes in mechanics
ESPOSITO, Floriana;SEMERARO, Giovanni;S. Ferilli
1998-01-01
Abstract
The work reported here has been led in a collaboration which took place in the framework of "taskforce 1: Representation Change" of a european project "Learning in Humans and Machines" sponsored by the European Science Foundation during the years 1994-97. This interdisciplinary and international collaboration has gathered Psychologists and Education Scientists, who collected and analyzed data about the knowledge of students in elementary mechanics, and who hypothesized mental models explaining the data; Computer Scientists specialized in Knowledge Representation who designed a language tailored to express the above models; and Computer Scientists specialized in Machine Learning, who investigated the behaviour of two systems on (part of) the data collected, and evaluated the relevance of the formal study of theory revision to the modelization of the conceptual changes that take place in students.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
