How basic-level objects facilitate question-asking in a categorization task

How basic-level objects facilitate question-asking in a categorization task

The ability to categorize information is essential to everyday tasks such as identifying the cause of an event given a set of likely explanations or pinpointing the correct from a set of possible diagnoses by sequentially probing questions. In three studies, we investigated how the level of inclusiveness at which objects are presented (basic-level vs. subordinate-level) influences children's (7...

Question asking in design reviews: how does inquiry facilitate the learning interaction?

Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom [email protected] Abstract: Design reviews are common educational practice in design disciplines, where students meet with instructors and other stakeholders to discuss the progress of a project they are engaged in. Such reviews are tightly coupled with project-based learning approaches in the design studio. A n...

A question worth asking?

How to Facilitate Social Contagion?

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provi...

Asking the Right Question

For instance, enthusiasts of object-oriented programming were initially keen to promote the value of hierarchical models. Only later did experimental evidence reveal that deep hierarchies are more error prone than shallow ones. In contrast, medical practice has changed dramatically during the last decade as a result of adopting an evidence-based paradigm. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, studie...