ONLINE COLLABORATION FOR PROGRAMMING: Assessing Students’ Cognitive Abilities

Assessing Cognitive Abilities: Intelligence and More

In modern cognitive science, rationality and intelligence are measured using different tasks and operations. Furthermore, in several contemporary dual process theories of cognition, rationality is a more encompassing construct than intelligence. Researchers need to continue to develop measures of rational thought without regard to empirical correlations with intelligence. The measurement of ind...

The Development of a Content Analysis Model for Assessing Students’ Cognitive Learning in Asynchronous Online Discussions

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a content analysis model for assessing students‟ cognitive learning in asynchronous online discussions. It adopted a fully mixed methods design, in which qualitative and quantitative methods were employed sequentially for data analysis and interpretation. Specifically, the design was a “sequential exploratory” (QUAL→ quan) design with priori...

Assessing Engineering Students’ Abilities to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas

1 Mark Sindelar, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Industrial Engineering, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, [email protected] 2 Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh, School of Engineering, 323 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, [email protected] 3 Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, 1049 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, mbsacre@en...

Assessing the Cognitive Abilities of Alternate Learning Classifier System Architectures

Mingling students’ cognitive abilities and learning strategies to transform CALL

Language researchers have identified a number of elements related to language performance. One of these factors is individual attributes of the language learners or their cognitive ability. In the fall semester 2015, 18 undergraduates of Greek for academic purposes language course of a public university in Cyprus participated in the study. This research work attempts to investigate the relation...