Search Results - "Derry, Sharon J."

Conducting Video Research in the Learning Sciences: Guidance on Selection, Analysis, Technology, and Ethics by Derry, Sharon J., Pea, Roy D., Barron, Brigid, Engle, Randi A., Erickson, Frederick, Goldman, Ricki, Hall, Rogers, Koschmann, Timothy, Lemke, Jay L., Sherin, Miriam Gamoran, Sherin, Bruce L.

“…Focusing on expanding technical capabilities and new collaborative possibilities, we address 4 challenges for scientists who collect and use video records to…”
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Leveraging Students' Knowledge to Adapt Science Curricula to Local Context by Minshew, Lana M., Barber-Lester, Kelly J., Derry, Sharon J., Anderson, Janice L.

“…Conceptions of ecological processes such as the flow of energy and cycling of matter in an ecosystem are increasingly important understandings in a rapidly…”
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Computers as Cognitive Tools by Lajoie, Susanne P., Ed, Derry, Sharon J., Ed

“…This book provides exemplars of the types of computer-based learning environments represented by the theoretical camps within the field and the practical…”
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Distributed leadership in online groups by Gressick, Julia, Derry, Sharon J.

“…We conducted research within a program serving future mathematics and science teachers. Groups of teachers worked primarily online in an asynchronous…”
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Cognitive Transfer Revisited: Can We Exploit New Media to Solve Old Problems on a Large Scale? by Derry, Sharon J., Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E., Nagarajan, Anandi, Chernobilsky, Ellina, Beitzel, Brian D.

“…The work we report in this special issue attempted to exploit the power of technology and cognitive theory to help make conceptual systems taught in large…”
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When the Book is Better than the Movie: How Contrasting Video Cases Influence Text Learning by Beitzel, Brian D., Derry, Sharon J.

“…Video usage in educational contexts is on the rise. We examined 3 alternative theories about cognitive mechanisms of learning and their implications for…”
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Targeting Transfer in a STELLAR PBL Course for Pre-Service Teachers by Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E, Derry, Sharon J, Bitterman, Alan, Hatrak, Natalie

“…Helping students in the professions apply conceptual ideas to the problems of practice is a key goal of problem-based learning (PBL). Because PBL is organized…”
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Fostering Students' Statistical and Scientific Thinking: Lessons Learned from an Innovative College Course by Derry, Sharon J., Levin, Joel R., Osana, Helen P., Jones, Melanie S., Peterson, Michael

“…Current research and theory indicate that college students' scientific and statistical reasoning skills are deficient, but can be improved through instruction…”
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Individual and Distributed Cognitions in Interdisciplinary Teamwork: A Developing Case Study and Emerging Theory by Derry, Sharon J., DuRussel, Lori Adams, O'Donnell, Angela M.

“…We present a developing distributed cognition theory of interdisciplinary collaboration that incorporates concepts from both situated cognition and…”
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Using Contrasting Case Activities to Deepen Teacher Understanding of Algebraic Thinking and Teaching by Derry, Sharon J., Wilsman, Margaret J., Hackbarth, Alan J.

“…Findings from an on-going design experiment within a year-long graduate course for middle school teachers of mathematics are reported. The purpose of the…”
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Cracking the Resource Nut With Distributed Problem-Based Learning in Secondary Teacher Education by Steinkuehler, Constance A., Derry, Sharon J., Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E., Delmarcelle, Matt

“…In this article, we focus on the features and functions of the STEP pbl system that enable us to support novice tutors and thereby address the human resource…”
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Learning from examples: Instructional principles from worked examples research by Atkinson, Robert K, u.a

“…Worked examples are instructional devices that provide an expert's problem solution for a learner to study. Worked-examples research is a…”
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Learning from Examples: Instructional Principles from the Worked Examples Research by Atkinson, Robert K., Derry, Sharon J., Renkl, Alexander, Wortham, Donald

“…Worked examples are instructional devices that provide an expert's problem solution for a learner to study. Worked-examples research is a…”
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Beyond Symbolic Processing: Expanding Horizons for Educational Psychology by Derry, Sharon J

“…Mayer (1992) believes that fractionation in educational research is now giving way to a unified cognitive approach based on subject-matter psychologies, the…”
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Advances in local student modeling using informal fuzzy reasoning by Hawkes, Lois Wright, Derry, Sharon J.

“…This paper presents an approach to local student modeling in mathematics intelligent tutors. A knowledge representation is developed that stores separately the…”
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How Tutors Model Students: A Study of Personal Constructs in Adaptive Tutoring by Derry, Sharon J., Potts, Michael K.

“…Studies of tutoring are producing rich descriptions of tutorial dialogue but have not identified constructs that tutors use to classify and discriminate among…”
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Effects of an organizer on memory for prose by Derry, Sharon J

“…112 undergraduates read a literature text preceded by either a comparative advance organizer or a placebo introduction. Three hypotheses regarding the…”
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Designing systems that train learning ability: From theory to practice by Derry, Sharon J, Murphy, Debra A

“…Empirical and theoretical evidence is presented to support the conclusion that improvement of learning ability is an important and viable educational goal…”
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Can an Advance Organizer Technique Compensate for Poor Reading Conditions? by Stallings, Shellie L., Derry, Sharon J.

“…In Experiment 1, 201 college students read both a literary and a technical text either in an advance organizer condition or a non-organizer control condition…”
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Strategy Training: An Incidental Learning Model for CAI by Derry, Sharon J.

“…Attempts to train learning strategies have not produced marked or lasting increases in academic achievement probably because current training models fail to…”
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