Subject: Systems Dyanmics Modeling: Memory and Learning

Posted by Markus Eklund on 9/9/2004

Message:

Hi,

I am a graduate student at San Diego State University (Educational Technolgy Department), researching the training of complex cognitive skills and am learning systems dyamics modeling.

Can anyone point me to someone (or an appropriate resource) who might know if any models have been developed that simulate the construct of 'Prior knowledge' (or any systems models developed from research on memory and learning)? The definition of 'prior knowledge' from which I am working is:

The whole of the person's actual (domain) knowledge that: (a) is available before a certain learning task, (b) is structured in schema,
(c) is declarative and procedural, (d) is partly explicit and partly tacit, (e) and is dynamic in nature and stored in the knowledge base.

In other words, the construct 'prior knowledge' is structured (knowing why), declarative (knowing definitions in recall or recognition), procedural (knowing how in knowledge acquisition), strategic (knowing when it applies), dynamic in state, and measured before a certain learning task.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

BR,

Markus Eklund
SDSU Graduate Student