Contents
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia...
Editorial...
Part I: Positive and Negative Learning in Higher Education
Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman
Towards Quality Higher Education: Barriers and Enablers
David Berliner
The Role of Modeling for "Seeking Truth" in an Educational Policy Classroom
Fritz Oser
Critical Thinking in Social Domains
Part II: Learning with New Media and Technology
Marcus Maurer, Christian Schemer, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, and Judith Jitomirski
Positive and Negative Media Effects on University Students' Learning: Preliminary Findings and a Research Program
Vinay Chaudhri
Explicating Logic of Biology to Support Critical Thinking
Pascal Klein, Stefan Küchemann, Paul van Kampen, Leanne Doughty, and Jochen Kuhn
Picture Bias in Upper-Division Physics Education
Koichi Kise
The Role of Media Conversion for Positive Learning
Part III: Innovative Analytical Approaches for Modeling of Learning
Alexander Mehler and Ramesh Vishvanathan Towards a Computational Model for Measuring the Complexity of Learning Tasks: A Combined Cognitive and Computational Approach
Michael Hoffer, Gabriel Wittum, Babett Lemke, Robert Jabs, and Arne Nägel
Automated Methods for the Comparison of Natural Languages
Andy Lücking
Grounding Educational Language: From Situation Modeling to Cognitive Structures
Christian Dormann and Christina Guthier Successful and Positive Learning through Study Crafting: A Self-Control Perspective
Mita Banerjee
Literature, Simulation, and the Path towards Deeper Learning
Andrej Podolskiy
On the Way of Developing a Holistic Explanatory Model of Positive Learning
Part IV: Measuring of Intra- and Interindividual Learning - From Neural Correlates to Language Topology
Arne Nagels, Svenja Lüll, Lisa Friederich, Benjamin Straube, Michael Grosvald, and Silvia Hansen-Schirra
The Neural Basis of Idea Density During Natural Spoken Language
Daniela Czernochowski, John Gamboa, and Shanley E. M. Allen
What Can the Eyes and the Brain Tell Us About Learning? The Role of Information Density in the Comprehension and Retrieval of Complex Concepts
Susanne Schmidt, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, and William Walstad
IRT Modeling of Decomposed Student Learning Patterns as Positive and Negative Learning in Higher Education Economics
Walter Bisang and Patryk Czerwinski
Performance in Knowledge Assessment Tests from the Perspective of Linguistic Typology
James Pellegrino
Challenges in the Modeling and Assessment of Complex Constructs: Some Examples from the PLATO Project
PART V: Perspectives
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Alexander Mehler, Walter Bisang & Gabriel Wittum
Positive Learning at Risk - Mapping Information Structures of Learning Sources in Economics and Computer Science (PLATO-i)
Richard J. Shavelson
PLATO in Search of Identity
About the Author:
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia has been Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, since 2006. She earned her doctoral degree from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2004 and her postdoctoral qualification in 2006. She has published widely on empirical educational research in vocational and higher education. She has directed numerous externally funded national and international research projects and has been coordinating the national research program 'Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs)' since 2011. Her research has earned various awards and honors. She is a member of many national and international advisory and editorial boards and serves as an expert consultant to ministries, foundations, and international journals.
