Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (EdD)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Elisabeth Swanson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-272).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-62).

The study reported in this dissertation investigated the relationships between thinking style, participation in classroom dialogue and learning outcomes. Classroom dialogue is a commonly used method for teaching and learning, and ways/strategies of taking advantage of classroom dialogue to optimise learning need to be specified. The study addresses this issue. Talking has traditionally been viewed as the main way of participation in classroom dialogue, and there is evidence for its learning benefit. However, silent participants have largely been overlooked and little is known about the function of listening with regard to learning. There is arguably a need to investigate the effects of both talking and listening on learning outcome. At an individual level, talking and listening do not serve all students equally well and individual characteristics should be considered when studying how students benefit from diverse participation behaviours. Thinking style, one aspect of individuality, is rarely related to participation in classroom dialogue nor has the corresponding learning outcomes been investigated previously: this will be addressed in the study. The study focuses particularly on high school students in mainland China, a group of people about whom there is relatively little material. A mixed-method research design was adopted, with the quantitative approach dominating. The Thinking Style Inventory - Revised II (Sternberg, Wagner & Zhang, 2007) was used to measure thinking styles. Talking and listening were considered as two forms of participation in classroom dialogue, with systematic observation being employed to collect data on talk and a newly designed questionnaire used to measure listening. Learning outcomes were illustrated through academic achievement and cognitive ability, with the former being measured by final-examination scores and the latter by the Sternberg Triarchic Ability Test (Sternberg, 1993). A series of statistical analyses were conducted and the results can be summarized as follows. Both talking and listening in classroom dialogue were found to be likely to facilitate academic achievement. Thinking style was significantly associated with participation in classroom dialogue. No relationship was found between thinking style and learning outcomes. Students’ thinking styles affected how they benefited from talking and listening, especially in mathematics. This study provides new perspectives on making use of classroom dialogue at both classroom and individual levels.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Studies, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 209-214.

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Artificial general intelligence is not well defined, but attempts such as the recent listof “Ingredients for building machines that think and learn like humans” are a startingpoint for building a system considered as such [1]. Numenta is attempting to lead thenew era of machine intelligence with their research to re-engineer principles of theneocortex. It is to be explored how the ingredients are in line with the design princi-ples of their algorithms. Inspired by Deep Minds commentary about an autonomy-ingredient, this project created a combination of Numentas Hierarchical TemporalMemory theory and Temporal Difference learning to solve simple tasks defined in abrowser environment. An open source software, based on Numentas intelligent com-puting platform NUPIC and Open AIs framework Universe, was developed to allowfurther research of HTM based agents on customized browser tasks. The analysisand evaluation of the results show that the agent is capable of learning simple tasksand there is potential for generalization inherent to sparse representations. However,they also reveal the infancy of the algorithms, not capable of learning dynamic com-plex problems, and that much future research is needed to explore if they can createscalable solutions towards a more general intelligent system.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The following paper aims to ponder on the problems of Philosophy teaching from the concept of thought image formulated by Gilles Deleuze, being image the orientation the thought gives itself. Such orientation comes from subjective presuppositions (common sense in general or pré-philosophy) and objectives (scientific sense), responsible for the concepts given in Philosophy in the strict form of propositions. We intended to go through how much of the problems in teaching high-school philosophy are due to the learning of the philosophical thought restricted to representation, it means, when presuppositions decide on the meaning and sense in the relation of the concept with the object. Such thought is given by the orientation of an image that naturally inclines it to truth and safe by the good will of the thinker who prejudges all, deciding on the true and false through the square of the representation: concept identity, analogy of judgments, the opposition of the predicate, and the similitude of the perception. The image of the thought, meaning the dogmatic image of the thought, imposes to the teaching of Philosophy and, especially, to the learning of thinking, a hindrance to a beginning without presuppositions in Philosophy, to a thought on the difference capable of establishing concepts to new ways of feeling, thinking, seeing, listening, speaking, and acting. / Este trabalho visa pensar os problemas do ensino de Filosofia a partir do conceito de imagem do pensamento formulado por Gilles Deleuze, sendo imagem a orientação que o pensamento dá a si mesmo. Esta orientação provém de pressupostos subjetivos (o senso comum em geral ou a pré-filosofia) e objetivos (o senso científico), que são responsáveis pelos conceitos dados em Filosofia na forma estrita de proposições. Procuramos examinar o quanto muito dos problemas em ensinar Filosofia no ensino médio ocorrem em face do aprendizado do pensamento filosófico restrito à representação, ou seja, quando as proposições decidem sobre o significado e o sentido na relação do conceito com o objeto. Tal pensamento dá-se pela orientação de uma imagem que o torna naturalmente inclinado à verdade e seguro pela boa vontade do pensador que a tudo prejulga, decidindo sobre o verdadeiro e o falso por meio do quadrado da representação: a identidade do conceito, a analogia dos juízos, a oposição dos predicados e a semelhança da percepção. A imagem do pensamento, significada assim como imagem dogmática do pensamento, coloca para o ensino da Filosofia e, especialmente, para o aprender a pensar, um obstáculo a um começo sem pressupostos em Filosofia, a um pensamento da diferença capaz de criar conceitos a novas formas de sentir, pensar, ver, ouvir, falar e agir.