Using a model of domain learning to understand the development of creativity

D Dumas, B Forthmann, P Alexander - Educational Psychologist, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Creative thinking is a process through which individuals generate ideas that are
simultaneously novel and meaningful within a given social context. Historically …

Relational thinking and relational reasoning: harnessing the power of patterning

PA Alexander - NPJ science of learning, 2016 - nature.com
This article offers an overview of the nature and role of relational thinking and relational
reasoning in human learning and performance, both of which pertain to the discernment of …

Interrogating the relation between conceptual change and epistemic beliefs

PK Murphy, PA Alexander - Handbook of epistemic cognition, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In this section, I want to challenge the common ground being taken by the chapter authors
regarding three issues related to epistemic change. These concern the mechanism of …

Building links between early socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, and math and science achievement

A Blums, J Belsky, K Grimm, Z Chen - Journal of Cognition and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examined whether and how socioeconomic status (SES) predicts school
achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) using structural …

Predicting creative problem solving in engineering design

D Dumas, LC Schmidt, PA Alexander - Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2016 - Elsevier
Develo** students' creative problem solving (CPS) is widely considered to be an
important goal in engineering design education. However, the cognitive processes required …

Measuring relational reasoning

PA Alexander, D Dumas, EM Grossnickle… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Relational reasoning is the foundational cognitive ability to discern meaningful patterns
within an informational stream, but its reliable and valid measurement remains problematic …

Examining the unique contributions and developmental stability of individual forms of relational reasoning to mathematical problem solving

CKY Tong, ESK Yip, TTY Wong - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Relational reasoning, a higher-order cognitive ability that identifies meaningful patterns
among information streams, has been suggested to underlie STEM development. This study …

[HTML][HTML] A patient-similarity-based model for diagnostic prediction

Z Jia, X Zeng, H Duan, X Lu, H Li - International journal of medical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To simulate the clinical reasoning of doctors, retrieve analogous patients of an
index patient automatically and predict diagnoses by the similar/dissimilar patients. Methods …

Role of questions in inquiry-based instruction: Towards a design taxonomy for question-asking and implications for design

AA Tawfik, A Graesser, J Gatewood… - Educational Technology …, 2020 - Springer
Many theories and models describe the various cognitive processes individuals engage in
as they solve ill-structured problems. While diverse in perspectives, these theories and …

Convergence of multiple fields on a relational reasoning approach to cognition.

S McLoughlin, I Tyndall, A Pereira - Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
The current paper briefly outlines how researchers from multiple sub-fields of cognitive
science have independently converged upon a relational account of language and …