Elliot Soloway

Publication List Details

Period

0000 - 2008

Number

59

Co-Authors

Supporting Teachers Using Palm Computers: Examining Classroom Practice over Time (2008)

Richard Vath, William Bobrowsky, Elliot Soloway, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Joseph Krajcik, Alycia Meriweather, ...

To meet the recent demand for reform in science education (NRC, 1996; AAAS, 1993), the Center for Highly Interactive Classrooms, Curricula, Computing in Education (hi-ce) at the University of...

Students ' Searching and Evaluating with the Artemis Interface to a Digital Library (2008)

Nathan Bos, Karen Drabenstott, Joseph Krajcik, Elliot Soloway, Melanie Talley, Steven Woolridge, ...

Abstract: This paper describes the design and evaluation of the Artemis interface to the University of Michigan Digital Library, which was built to assist students in searching on-line collections....

MUSHI: A Multi-Device Framework for Collaborative Inquiry Learning (2008)

Leilah Lyons, Joseph Lee, Christopher Quintana, Elliot Soloway

framework, which was designed to support middle and high school students in the acquisition of scientific concepts rooted in complex, multi-scalar phenomena. In designing a learning environment that...

SPEClAL SECT/ON LEARNING TO PROGRAM = LEARNING TO CONSTRUCT MECHANISMS AND EXPLANATIONS (2007)

Elliot Soloway

Teaching effective problem-solving skills in the context of teaching programming necessitates a revised curriculum for introducto y computer programming courses. MOTIVATION AND GOALS A...

Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through Interacting Software Agents (2007)

Daniel E. Arkins, William P. Birmingham, Edmund H. Durfee, Erie J. Glover, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Elliot Soloway, ...

Digital Library, interacting software agents cooperate and compete within a virtual information economy to provide library services to students, researchers, and pk roviding true access to the human...

An Empirical Study (2007)

Soloway Ehrlich, Elliot Soloway, Jeffrey Bonar Learning

are attemptiJ~g to (1) understand how programmers--novices and experts--read and write programs, and (2) build software environments based firmly on this psychological research that facilitate the...

SPECIAL SECTION NOVICE MISTAKES: ARE THE FOLK WISDOMS CORRECT? (2007)

James C. Spohrer, Elliot Soloway

Researchers have recently been trying to gain an understanding of the kinds of mistakes novice pro-grammers are likely to make [2, 4, 7, 11, 15, 191. One of the main motivations for these efforts is...

Using Technology to Support the Development of Conceptual Understanding of Chemical Representations (2007)

Hsin-kai Wu, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot Soloway

Abstract: Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular chemical representations. This study investigates how students develop their understanding of chemical representations with the...

Inquiry in Science Classrooms (2007)

Joseph Krajcik, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Ron Marx, Elliot Soloway

approaches to science instruction feature inquiry as essential for student learning. The assumption is that students need opportunities to find solutions to real problems by asking and refining...

Exploring Middle School Science Students ' Modeling Process and Strategies When Using a Computational Modeling Tool (2007)

Baohui Zhang, Hsin-kai Wu, Eric B. Fretz, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot Soloway

In this study, we explore and characterize middle school science students ’ modeling strategies when they are engaged in scientific modeling by the use of a computer-based modeling tool, Model-It....

“Going to Scale and Sustaining Educational Reform Initiatives: District, Regional, and (2007)

Elliot Soloway, Joseph Krajcik, Ron Marx, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Longitudinal Perspectives, Reculturing Process, ...

The past decade has seen great strides in the design of new learning technologies that support learning aligned with standards-based constructivist and inquiry teaching practices. Though there is...

Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)

Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...

More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...

Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)

Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...

More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...

Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)

Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...

More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...

One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: an opportunity for global research collaboration (2006)

Chan, Tak-Wai, Roschelle, Jeremy, Hsi, Sherry, Kinshuk, Kinshuk, Sharples, Mike, Brown, Tom, ...

Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners - indeed, in many countries, this is already a...

Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)

Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...

More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...

One-to-one technology-enhanced learning: an opportunity for global research collaboration (2006)

Chan, Tak-Wai, Roschelle, Jeremy, Hsi, Sherry, Kinshuk, Kinshuk, Sharples, Mike, Brown, Tom, ...

Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners - indeed, in many countries, this is already a...

Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)

Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...

More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...

Lessons learned from 1-to-laptop initiatives: reflections on critical components (2006)

Muir, Mike, Owen, Alice, Knezek, Gerald, Christensen, Rhonda, Soloway, Elliot, Norris, Cathy, ...

More and more jurisdictions are exploring and implementing ubiquitous learning environments. The Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium identifies at least 14 large-scale learning with laptop and...

PROUST: Knowledge-Based Program Understanding. (2005)

Johnson,W. Lewis, Soloway,Elliot

This paper describes a program called PROUST which does on-line analysis and understanding of Pascal programs written by novice programmers. PROUST takes as input a program and a non-algorithm...

The nature of middle school learners' science content understandings with the use of on-line resources (2003)

Hoffman, Joseph L., Wu, Hsin-Kai, Krajcik, Joseph S., Soloway, Elliot

Early research on using the World Wide Web indicated that middle school students did not explore much and used Web tools naively. In response to these challenges, an on-line research engine, Artemis,...

An Investigation of Software Scaffolds Supporting Modeling Practices (2002)

Davis, Elizabeth A., Wu, Hsin-Kai, Fretz, Eric B., Zhang, BaoHui, Krajcik, Joseph S., Soloway, Elliot

Modeling of complex systems and phenomena is of value in science learning and is increasingly emphasised as an important component of science teaching and learning. Modeling engages learners in...

Editorial—A Survey of Research Questions for Intelligent Information Systems in Education (2002)

Cherniavsky, John C., Soloway, Elliot

Education is an application domain in which many research questions from Intelligent Information Systems may prove their worth. We discuss three themes in this editorial: distributed education and...

Teaching the Nintendo Generation to Program (2002)

Mark Guzdial, Elliot Soloway

While the phrase “New Economy ” doesn’t hold the same promise that it did for the dotcommers a couple years ago, we all still recognize that Information Technology has become the backbone of...

Promoting understanding of chemical representations: Students' use of a visualization tool in the classroom (2001)

Wu, Hsin-Kai, Krajcik, Joseph S., Soloway, Elliot

Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular representations of chemistry. This study investigated how students developed an understanding of chemical representations with the aid of...

6-8). An Engineering Process for Constructing Scaffold Work Environments to Support Student Inquiry: A Case Study (2001)

Kathleen Luchini, Paul Oehler, Chris Quintana, Elliot Soloway

Inquiry-based curricula encourage students to develop research and collaboration skills by working with evidence and exploring real problems. Students engaging in inquiry projects must be supported...

Promoting conceptual understanding of chemical representations: Students’ use of a visualization tool in the classroom. Journal of research in Science teaching 38:821842 (2001)

Hsin-kai Wu, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot Soloway

Abstract: This study investigates how students develop their understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a visualizing tool, eChem, that allows them to build molecular models and view...

New technologies and the challenge for school leadership (White paper prepared for the Joyce Foundation (2000)

Barry J. Fishman, Louis M. Gomez, Elliot Soloway

In considering the role that leadership plays in the successful use of technology for urban school reform, one must first consider the overall role of school leaders. Are school leaders responsible...

Linking Urban Latino Families to School Using the Web: A Pilot Study (1999)

Barry Fishman, Jeff Kupperman, Elliot Soloway

: What happens when a community that has previously had very little or no exposure to the Internet receives Internet access at home? This paper describes a project that provided television set-top...

MENO-II: An AI-Based Programming Tutor. (1998)

Soloway,Elliot, Rubin,Eric, Woolf,Beverly, Bonar,Jeffrey, Johnson,W. Lewis

MENO-II is a computer-based tutor intended to help novices learning to program in Pascal. The BUG-FINDing component attempts to find non-syntactic bugs in a student's program. It draws on a database...

Classifying Bugs is a Tricky Business. (1998)

Johnson,W. Lewis, Draper,Stephen, Soloway,Elliot

In order to build a computer-based programming tutor for novice programmers, it was necessary to first classify the bugs found in their programs on the basis of type and frequency. However, the...

Knowledge-Based Environments for Teaching and Learning. (1998)

Woolf, Beverly, Soloway, Elliot, Clancey, William, VanLehn, Kurt, Suthers, Dan

The Spring Symposium on Knowledge-based Environments for Teaching and Learning focused on the use of technology to facilitate learning, training, teaching, counseling, coaxing and coaching. Sixty...

Secondary Students' Dynamic Modeling Processes: Analyzing, Reasoning About, Synthesizing, and Testing Models of Stream Ecosystems (1998)

Krajcik, Joseph S., Stratford, Steven J., Soloway, Elliot

In this paper, we explore dynamic modeling as an opportunity for students to think about the science content they are learning. We examined the “Cognitive Strategies for Modeling” (CSMs) in which...

The design of guided learner-adaptable scaffolding in interactive learning environments (1998)

Shari L. Jackson, Joseph Krajcik, Elliot Soloway

To address the needs of a population of users who are also learners, the learner-centered design of software suggests the need to design scaffolding—fadeable supports—into educational tools. This...

Introducing Urban Latino Families to the Internet at Home: Preliminary Issues and Trends (1998)

Barry Fishman, Jeff Kupperman, E. Soloway, Elliot Soloway

: What happens when a community that has previously had very little or no exposure to the Internet receives Internet access at home? This paper describes a project that provided television set-top...

Digital Libraries in the Science Classroom: An Opportunity for Inquiry (1996)

Wallace, Raven, Krajcik, Joseph, Soloway, Elliot

Digital libraries offer a unique and unprecedented resource through which teachers can facilitate student inquiry. In the recent National Research Council publication quoted above, National Science...

Learning theory in practice: Case studies of learner-centered design (1996)

Elliot Soloway, Shari L. Jackson, Jonathan Klein, Chris Quintana, James Reed, Jeff Spitulnik, ...

The design of software for learners must be guided by educational theory. We present a framework for learner-centered design (LCD) that is theoretically motivated by sociocultural and constructivist...

Students as multimedia composers (1994)

Hay, Kenneth E., Guzdal, Mark, Jackson, Shari, Boyle, Robert A., Soloway, Elliot

This study is distinguished by distancing itself from the type of multimedia research that looks at the effects of multimedia instructional units on students. The approach, instead, is within a...

Characterizing Process Change Using Log File Data (1993)

Guzdial, Mark, Walton, Chris, Konemann, Michael, Soloway, Elliot

Students learning a new task with an unfamiliar interface must learn the task, the interface, and a task-to-device mapping which enables them to develop an efficient process for achieving goals with...

Characterizing Process Change Using Log File Data (1993)

Guzdial, Mark, Walton, Chris, Konemann, Michael, Soloway, Elliot

Students learning a new task with an unfamiliar interface must learn the task, the interface, and a task-to-device mapping which enables them to develop an efficient process for achieving goals with...

Mechanisms for Facilitating a Vital and Dynamic Education System: Fundamental Roles for Education Science and Technology (1987)

Pea, Roy D., Soloway, Elliot

This report was prepared as one component of an OTA project entitled "Educational Technology: An Assessment of Practice and Potential," requested by the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor....

Mechanisms for Facilitating a Vital and Dynamic Education System: Fundamental Roles for Education Science and Technology (1987)

Pea, Roy D., Soloway, Elliot

This report was prepared as one component of an OTA project entitled "Educational Technology: An Assessment of Practice and Potential," requested by the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor....

Log on education: K-12 and the Internet (0000)

Soloway, Elliot

The article focuses on the role of Internet in learning The article focuses on the role of Internet in learning. Learning is promoted when information resources and discourse around...

Using Technology to Address Old Problems in New Ways (0000)

Soloway, Elliot

This article discusses the use of innovative computer technology in teaching aids and education for children, in various newfound ways. According to the author, utilizing the potential of various...

No One Is Making Money In Educational Software. (0000)

Soloway, Elliot

The article explores challenges involved in getting to the point where a true cornucopia of educational software is available for the children. No one is making serious money selling educational...

Science in the Plams of their Hands. (0000)

Soloway, Elliot

The article focuses on the introduction of technology in the learning process. The National Research Council (NRC) says that inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the...

Does the Internet Support Student Inquiry? Don't Ask. (0000)

Soloway, Elliot

Inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the central strategy for teaching science. Such inquiry requires access to serious information resources. The article discusses...

Using Technology to Address Old Problems in New Ways

Soloway, Elliot

This article discusses the use of innovative computer technology in teaching aids and education for children, in various newfound ways. According to the author, utilizing the potential of various...

Log on education: K-12 and the Internet

Soloway, Elliot

The article focuses on the role of Internet in learning The article focuses on the role of Internet in learning. Learning is promoted when information resources and discourse around...

No One Is Making Money In Educational Software.

Soloway, Elliot

The article explores challenges involved in getting to the point where a true cornucopia of educational software is available for the children. No one is making serious money selling educational...

Science in the Plams of their Hands.

Soloway, Elliot

The article focuses on the introduction of technology in the learning process. The National Research Council (NRC) says that inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the...

Does the Internet Support Student Inquiry? Don't Ask.

Soloway, Elliot

Inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the central strategy for teaching science. Such inquiry requires access to serious information resources. The article discusses...