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GENERAL LEARNING ABILITY [5 records]

Record 1 1999-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

those cognitive performances in which skilled judgment habits have become crystallized as the result of earlier learning application of some prior, more fundamental, general ability to these fields.

CONT

The tests focus on fluid intelligence (the ability to perceive patterns and relationships between things) rather than on crystallized ability which is the collection of skilled judgements a person has acquired by applying his fluid intelligence to his educational opportunities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

L'aptitude générale cristallisée est mesurée par les tests d'intelligence classiques faisant intervenir les facteurs Verbal et Numérique, tandis que les tests culture-free, dont celui-ci, rendent compte de l'aptitude générale fluide.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Aids (Psychology)
DEF

This test is used to identify level of coding performance in relation to age peers, diagnoses learning disabilities in reading, spelling, and arithmetic when used in conjunction with a comprehensive test of general ability, measures the development of basic academic codes over time when intervention techniques are attempted and finally studies the relationships between the coding aspects of reading and arithmetic with the behavioural disabilities of verbal and numerical comprehension and problem solving.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides au diagnostic (Psychologie)

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A sequence of states and operators for a class of problems, developed by an inductive machine.

CONT

Integrating example-based learning with analogy provides the ability to acquire general plans from instance solutions.... Mitchell' s version-space method... abstracts generalized plans from the recurring common aspects of these situations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Le concept à apprendre y est un plan général, décrit sous forme de composition d'opérateurs paramétrés. Ce plan est suffisant pour permettre de passer d'une configuration initiale à une configuration finale d'objets.

Spanish

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Record 4 1989-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

SMITHTOWN(Shute an Glaser, 1986; Shute and Bonar, 1986) is a system for teaching economics, which combines a microworld for exploratory learning with a(bite-sized tutoring module.) The student is presented with a simulated town; she can vary parameters such as the supply or the price of certain goods to study the modifications induced in other parameters. Figure 7. 11 shows a snapshot of SMITHTOWN's "notebook" facility, which allows the student to record her experiments. The system implements two simultaneous pedagogical intentions : teaching principles of economics and teaching general investigative behaviors. Bites at the economics level monitor which laws the student is discovering, supplying the name of the new concept when she makes a relevant hypothesis. If the student flounders excessively, the system can become more directive and suggest experiments according to a curriculum that organizes the(domain bites). Bites for investigative behaviors monitor various skills of scientific inquiry such as the ability to collect and record data in a systematic way. At this level, the system acts as a coach, but it does not address inquiry skills directly, since these bites constitute a sort of(metacurriculum).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

module pédagogique : macrocomposante d'un didacticiel intelligent qui contient et gère les informations nécessaires au choix des interventions pédagogiques en fonction des informations fournies par le modèle de l'apprenant.

OBS

micro-expertise : unité d'apprentissage du module expert ou du module pédagogique.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
DEF

... [a] 50 item paper-pencil test measuring general learning ability in verbal, spatial and numerical reasoning to predict ability to adjust to complex and rapidly changing job requirements and ability to complete complex job training. The test also measures potential turnover and dissatisfaction on routinized or simplex labor intensive jobs. Test items include Analogies, Analysis of geometric Figures, Arithmetic Problems, Disarranged Sentences, Sentence Parallelism with Proverbs, Similarities, Logic, Definitions, Judgment, Direction Following, and others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique

Spanish

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