Generative learning strategies are intended to improve students' learning by prompting them
to actively make sense of the material to be learned. But are they effective for all students …

There is a well-known relation between spatial ability and mathematics dating back to the
work of early twentieth century factor analysts. This connection is a ripe opportunity for …

Analogy and similarity are often assumed to be distinct psychological processes. In contrast
to this position, the authors suggest that both similarity and analogy involve a process of …

11 ANALOGICAL REASONING Page 1 186 Author note This research was supported by a
grant to the senior author from the Office of Naval Research; award number N00014-16-1-2613 …

Analogy is an inductive mechanism based on structured comparisons of mental
representations. It is an important special case of role-based relational reasoning, in which …

This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human
memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of then-current efforts to …

'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that
integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent …

This paper describes the structure-map** engine (SME), a program for studying
analogical processing. SME has been built to explore Gentner's structure-map** theory of …

How do children acquire the vast array of concepts, strategies, and skills that distinguish the
thinking of infants and toddlers from that of preschoolers, older children, and adolescents? In …

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised
a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they …