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We investigated how creating cognitive models enhances learners’ construction of mental models on human cognitive information processing. Two class practices for undergraduates and graduates were performed, in which participants were required to construct a computational running model of solving subtraction problems and then develop a bug model that simulated students’ arithmetic errors. Analyses showed that by creating cognitive models, participants learned to identify buggy procedures that produce systematic errors and predict expected erroneous answers by mentally simulating the mental model. The limitation is that this benefit of creating cognitive models was observed only in participants who successfully programmed a computational model.
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Miwa, K. et al. (2015). Learning Mental Models of Human Cognitive Processing by Creating Cognitive Models. In: Conati, C., Heffernan, N., Mitrovic, A., Verdejo, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_29
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