Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap Bridging the Educational Research-Teaching Practice Gap

The first paper [1] in this two-part miniseries on conceptual understanding discussed expert and novice conceptual knowledge, the multifaceted nature of conceptual understanding, and the cognitive skills essential for constructing it. This second article presents examples of instruments for the assessment and development of five facets of conceptual understanding that require competence in the ...

notes on bridging the generation gap

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Bridging the Risk Gap

It is well understood that new product development (NPD) projects are risky endeavors ( Cerpa and Verner 2009 ; Smith 1999 ; Nelson 2007 ) and that the management of risk is a vital task for managers in these types of projects. A plethora of canonical risk management standards has emerged (see, for instance, Project Management Institute 2013 ), and these are promoted as being self-evidently cor...

Tendon—bridging the gap

Bridging the Semantic Gap

Content-based image retrieval systems were introduced as an alternative to avoid the need of manual tagging in traditional keyword-based image retrieval systems. However, the representation of image using visual features only involves a loss of information which is referred to as semantic gap. A number of techniques have been proposed to deal with ‘semantic gap’. This paper reviews existing app...