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Buckley, Patrick; Doyle, Elaine – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper outlines how an existing collaborative forecasting tool called a prediction market (PM) can be integrated into an educational context to enhance information literacy skills and cognitive disciplinary knowledge. The paper makes a number of original contributions. First, it describes how this tool can be packaged as a pedagogical…
Descriptors: Prediction, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Decision Support Systems
Beatty, Brenda Ruth – 2002
This conceptual framework is grounded in the data analysis of transcribed interviews with 50 Ontario teachers and the text of a 7-month online discussion group among 25 principals from England, Ireland, Canada, United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Both methods were employed with the stated purpose of understanding emotional experiences of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
McWhirter, Elizabeth P. – 1979
Interpretation of experimental tasks is influenced by knowledge of the language used, by assessment of what the experimenter intends, and by how subjects themselves would normally represent the physical situation. Whether these processes in which children engage in cognitive studies differ from those employed by adults in similar tasks was…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children