Explicating the Tacit Knowledge in Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The paper attempts to show how the emerging field of Cognitive Science can have a major impact on practical education. In particular it provides an overview of two projects at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman: the work on Socratic tutoring by Collins and Stevens and the work on diagnosing student's misconceptions in arithmetic by Brown and Burton. These two projects are cited as examples of how the techniques of Cognitive Science make it possible to analyze teaching and learning in genuinely novel ways.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA058741

Entities

People

  • Allan Collins

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Arithmetic
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Science
  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Instructors
  • Learning
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Training
  • Training Management

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  • Education

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