Modeling Conceptual Understanding

Understanding each other: Defining a conceptual space for cognitive modeling

Cognitive modeling is a complex endeavor so it is not surprising that the goals and intentions of modelers are often misunderstood, even by other modelers. To try to clarify this we have attempted to map out the various philosophical and theoretical commitments that one makes when creating a cognitive model or architecture. The goal of this is to avoid misunderstandings between the adherents of...

A Conceptual Modeling Approach To Improve Human Genome Understanding

Information Systems cannot be designed nor programmed without prior elicitation of the knowledge they need to know. Representing this knowledge in an explicit form is the main application of a Conceptual Model. By allowing for a minor paradigm shift, one can imagine the human body as an Information System. Highly complex and built on biological molecules, rather than man-made hardware, but an I...

Improving Conceptual Understanding and Representation Skills Through Excel-Based Modeling

The National Research Council framework for science education and the Next Generation Science Standards have developed a need for additional research and development of curricula that is both technologically model-based and includes engineering practices. This is especially the case for biology education. This paper describes a quasi-experimental design study to test the effectiveness of a mode...

A Qualitative Investigation Into Conceptual Understanding at Iranian Elementary Schools

This study attempts to root out some of the causes of absence of conceptual understanding in elementary level particularly in math subject and the factors that cause this deficiency. As a body of researchers, we use a quasi-form of methodology qualitatively designed by which we give a pre-test and post-test to our participants (randomly selected teachers and students), through some open-ended q...

Understanding By Conceptual Inference