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MANIPULATIVE SKILL [3 records]

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Record 1 2021-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
OBS

This term is used to classify skill courses which prepare the trainee for an occupational role not at the professional or semi-professional level. The emphasis is on manipulative skills with varying degrees of complexity and the performance of established procedures and techniques with varying degrees of personal responsibility rather than on the applications of ideas and principles.

Key term(s)
  • trade entry level

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
OBS

Cette expression désigne les cours de développement des aptitudes qui préparent le stagiaire à occuper un emploi qui n'est pas de niveau «professionnel» ou «semi-professionnel». Ces cours portent essentiellement sur l'acquisition d'aptitudes manuelles comportant divers degrés de complexité et sur l'application de procédures et de techniques établis comportant divers degrés de responsabilité personnelle, plutôt que sur la concrétisation d'idées et de principes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Administración escolar y paraescolar
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Record 2 2003-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Training
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

Proficiency in handling tools or machines, in planning processes, or in designing various objects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Orientation professionnelle
  • Travail et emploi

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Formación profesional
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 3 1998-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

The study of design and purpose in natural phenomena.

CONT

In trying to model the way students build incorrect procedures, it is reasonable to assume initially that they perceive the teleology of the procedures(that is, the goals of its steps), but that erroneous teleological rationalizations lead them to choose forms of the skill that differ from the intended one. A study adopting this perspective would concentrate on the way students "understand" procedures. An interesting issue in this regard is the use of manipulative models such as Dienes blocks or abaci, included in some curricula. These models are intended to impart some semantic understanding of procedure to students, and require an analogical transfer to the target procedure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Étude de la finalité. Science des fins de l'homme.

CONT

sémantique téléologique

OBS

notion appliquée à la modélisation du raisonnement humain par K. VanLehn et J.S. Brown (1980).

Spanish

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