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Interactive Simulations as a Window Into Cognition: Theory-Driven Characterizations of Process Data

Sat, April 9, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Two, Marquis Salon 12

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This session focuses on interactive simulations as a medium for gathering rich evidence about student cognition. Interactive behaviors and system events can be captured automatically while students are solving problems or completing tasks with a simulation. These events can be organized into log files and analyzed to identify meaningful sequences of actions that provide insights into student cognition. We will present three separate research projects that have explored the potential of this kind of process data, with empirical research ranging from in-depth cognitive methods to online experimental studies generating large data sets of interactive behaviors. The three projects take a top-down approach to analysis that combines theory-driven predictions with exploratory analyses and cutting edge modeling techniques for complex data sets.

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