Chapter 1: Introduction: A Hidden World of Nonformal Expert Reasoning This chapter motivates the study of nonformal methods experts use during the process of creative theory formation rather than those they display in polished articles after the fact, and describes the method of video taped think aloud protocols used in this study. The tapes capture scientists in the act of: mentally performing...

This paper focuses on case studies from think-aloud protocols with expert scientists solving explanation problems in which they appear to make predictions for novel systems they have never seen by “imagining what will happen” or “running” the system in their heads. Nersessian [2002] has proposed, based on her reading of historical records of investigations in scientific work such as Maxwell’s w...

We investigated what influence task type and user experience had on information-seeking behaviors on the Web by using screen-capture logs and eye-movement data. Five graduate students in library and information science and eleven undergraduate students with other majors performed two different Web searches, a report-writing and a tripplanning task, and their think-aloud protocols, behaviors, an...

BACKGROUND There is recognition that different data collection methods gather different aspects of decision making data. Although the selection of a method to explore nurses' decision making is partially determined by the theoretical perspective that informs each study, some flexibility remains. Description of the relative benefits of each method will enable future researchers to selectively id...

In user studies, eye tracking is often used in combination with other recordings, such as think-aloud protocols. However, it is difficult to analyze the eye tracking data and transcribed recordings together because of missing data alignment and integration. We suggest the use of word-sized eye tracking visualizations to augment the transcript with important events that occurred concurrently to ...

In this paper we investigate the cognitive plau-sibility of an integrated framework for qualitative prediction of behaviour. The framework is based on the KADS expertise modeling approach and integrates diierent approaches to qualitative reasoning. The framework is implemented in a program called GARP. To test the cognitive plau-sibility a physics problem involving qualitative prediction of beh...

Music curriculum programmes are designed by English teachers in schools as the primary means of musical engagement for young people aged 11–14. Such curricula often structured learning topics. However, teacher rationales sequencing topics they have chosen to include their is an under-developed area music education research literature. This study seeks examine practices this domain through a com...