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What is Diagnostics of Misconceptions

Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education
A type of depressed score on MERLO indicates that the learner fails to include within the Boundary of Meaning (BoM) of the concept certain statements that do share equivalence-of-meaning (but do not share surface similarity) with the Target Statement; such depressed score signals an over-restrictive (too exclusive) understanding of the meaning of the concept . Another type of depressed score on MERLO indicates that the learner fails to exclude from the Boundary of Meaning (BoM) of the concept certain statements that do not share equivalence of-meaning (but that do share surface similarity) with the Target Statement; this latter type of depressed score signals an under-restrictive (too inclusive) understanding of the meaning of the concept .
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Concept Science Evidence-Based MERLO Learning Analytics
Uri Shafrir (University of Toronto, Canada) and Ron S. Kenett (KPA Group Ltd., Israel & University of Turin, Italy)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9634-1.ch016
Abstract
This chapter is about Concept Science Evidence-Based MERLO Learning Analytics, an educational informatics system based on the teaching and learning methodologies described in the chapter on “Learning in the Digital Age with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO)” (Etkind, Kenett, & Shafrir, 2015). It collects, documents, analyzes, and reports data gathered from implementation of a pedagogy for conceptual thinking and peer cooperation in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institutions, as well as from learning programs in private and public organizations.
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