Denis Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
School Processes That Can Drive Scaling-Up of an Innovation or Contribute to Its Abandonment
This five-year study focused on school processes that promoted the scaling-up of a high school academic literacy framework, Reading Apprenticeship, developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI). Implementing an innovative strategy for scaling-up involving school-based cross-disciplinary teacher teams, SLI brought the framework to 274 schools across five states. Our study was guided by research literature that viewed scale-up as increa…
Can Scientific Research From the Laboratory be of Any Use to Teachers
Behavior in a psychology laboratory—constrained by the need to efficiently replicate tasks, record individual responses, and avoid contamination from external factors—is different in systematic ways from behavior within an everyday environment where similar tasks are undertaken and problems solved. This article describes a program of research that identified the sources of this "ecological invalidity" of laboratory settings. The authors connect t…
Telling what they know: The role of gesture and language in children's science explanations
What is the role of gesture in classroom science talk? This study first approaches the question generally, by asking how children communicate their knowledge of the seasons (through language, gesture and/or deictic references to props). We then ask how gestures function as they interplay with language in students' science talk. A typology, coded for High or Low lexical and gestural specification, summarized how thirteen sixth graders externalized…
Teaching, Relating, and Learning
Interpreting an intelligent tutor's algorithmic task: A role for apprenticeship as a model for instructional design
Opportunities for Research on the Organizational Impact of School Computers
As computers are acquired in greater numbers in schools, their impact on the social organization of instruction increasingly becomes an issue for research. Developments in the cognitive science of instruction, drawing on the sociohistorical theory, provide researchers with an appropriate theoretical approach to cultural tools and cognitive change, while developments in the technology of computer-supported cooperative work provide researchers with…
Classroom Research On Interactive Video
Classroom Research on Interactive Video
The role of mutual knowledge in the development of perspective taking
Interpretation and manipulation in human plans∗
An analysis of children's interpretations of a complex episode of social interaction is used to illustrate three features of human plans which distinguish them from robot plans and which form a basis for a theory of the development of social action. The features are: (1) Human plans are social; (2) human plans operate on interpretations; and (3) human plans are used, not just executed. Elementary school and college subjects were shown a skit in w…
Locating tasks in psychology and education∗
The issue is raised: How does performance on one occasion relate to performance on another occasion? This is a problem both for practitioners and researchers working in classrooms and for psychologists concerned with the relation between results obtained on laboratory tasks and everyday performances. Naturally occurring events lack the constraints of the laboratory, making it difficult to compare one event to the next or to evaluate performance a…
Learning to draw a picture: The social context of an individual activity∗
Individual activities in a classroom, just as much as group activities, are constructed by persons in a social context. In this paper, one period of nursery school drawing activities is characterized in order to examine drawing and learning how to draw in that context. The first section is an examination of the larger social scene. It is shown how a child's learning to plan and produce a drawing could be facilitated by the teacher's work in organ…
Opportunities for Research on the Organizational Impact of School Computers
As computers are acquired in greater numbers in schools, their impact on the social organization of instruction increasingly becomes an issue for research. Developments in the cognitive science of instruction, drawing on the sociohistorical theory, provide researchers with an appropriate theoretical approach to cultural tools and cognitive change, while developments in the technology of computer-supported cooperative work provide researchers with…
Locating tasks in psychology and education∗
The issue is raised: How does performance on one occasion relate to performance on another occasion? This is a problem both for practitioners and researchers working in classrooms and for psychologists concerned with the relation between results obtained on laboratory tasks and everyday performances. Naturally occurring events lack the constraints of the laboratory, making it difficult to compare one event to the next or to evaluate performance a…
Learning to draw a picture: The social context of an individual activity∗
Individual activities in a classroom, just as much as group activities, are constructed by persons in a social context. In this paper, one period of nursery school drawing activities is characterized in order to examine drawing and learning how to draw in that context. The first section is an examination of the larger social scene. It is shown how a child's learning to plan and produce a drawing could be facilitated by the teacher's work in organ…
Interpretation and manipulation in human plans∗
An analysis of children's interpretations of a complex episode of social interaction is used to illustrate three features of human plans which distinguish them from robot plans and which form a basis for a theory of the development of social action. The features are: (1) Human plans are social; (2) human plans operate on interpretations; and (3) human plans are used, not just executed. Elementary school and college subjects were shown a skit in w…
School Processes That Can Drive Scaling-Up of an Innovation or Contribute to Its Abandonment
This five-year study focused on school processes that promoted the scaling-up of a high school academic literacy framework, Reading Apprenticeship, developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI). Implementing an innovative strategy for scaling-up involving school-based cross-disciplinary teacher teams, SLI brought the framework to 274 schools across five states. Our study was guided by research literature that viewed scale-up as increa…
Can Scientific Research From the Laboratory be of Any Use to Teachers
Behavior in a psychology laboratory—constrained by the need to efficiently replicate tasks, record individual responses, and avoid contamination from external factors—is different in systematic ways from behavior within an everyday environment where similar tasks are undertaken and problems solved. This article describes a program of research that identified the sources of this "ecological invalidity" of laboratory settings. The authors connect t…
Learning to draw a picture: The social context of an individual activity∗
Individual activities in a classroom, just as much as group activities, are constructed by persons in a social context. In this paper, one period of nursery school drawing activities is characterized in order to examine drawing and learning how to draw in that context. The first section is an examination of the larger social scene. It is shown how a child's learning to plan and produce a drawing could be facilitated by the teacher's work in organ…
Locating tasks in psychology and education∗
The issue is raised: How does performance on one occasion relate to performance on another occasion? This is a problem both for practitioners and researchers working in classrooms and for psychologists concerned with the relation between results obtained on laboratory tasks and everyday performances. Naturally occurring events lack the constraints of the laboratory, making it difficult to compare one event to the next or to evaluate performance a…
Classroom Research On Interactive Video
Classroom Research on Interactive Video
The role of mutual knowledge in the development of perspective taking
Interpretation and manipulation in human plans∗
An analysis of children's interpretations of a complex episode of social interaction is used to illustrate three features of human plans which distinguish them from robot plans and which form a basis for a theory of the development of social action. The features are: (1) Human plans are social; (2) human plans operate on interpretations; and (3) human plans are used, not just executed. Elementary school and college subjects were shown a skit in w…
Opportunities for Research on the Organizational Impact of School Computers
As computers are acquired in greater numbers in schools, their impact on the social organization of instruction increasingly becomes an issue for research. Developments in the cognitive science of instruction, drawing on the sociohistorical theory, provide researchers with an appropriate theoretical approach to cultural tools and cognitive change, while developments in the technology of computer-supported cooperative work provide researchers with…
Interpreting an intelligent tutor's algorithmic task: A role for apprenticeship as a model for instructional design
Teaching, Relating, and Learning
Telling what they know: The role of gesture and language in children's science explanations
What is the role of gesture in classroom science talk? This study first approaches the question generally, by asking how children communicate their knowledge of the seasons (through language, gesture and/or deictic references to props). We then ask how gestures function as they interplay with language in students' science talk. A typology, coded for High or Low lexical and gestural specification, summarized how thirteen sixth graders externalized…
Can Scientific Research From the Laboratory be of Any Use to Teachers
Behavior in a psychology laboratory—constrained by the need to efficiently replicate tasks, record individual responses, and avoid contamination from external factors—is different in systematic ways from behavior within an everyday environment where similar tasks are undertaken and problems solved. This article describes a program of research that identified the sources of this "ecological invalidity" of laboratory settings. The authors connect t…
School Processes That Can Drive Scaling-Up of an Innovation or Contribute to Its Abandonment
This five-year study focused on school processes that promoted the scaling-up of a high school academic literacy framework, Reading Apprenticeship, developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI). Implementing an innovative strategy for scaling-up involving school-based cross-disciplinary teacher teams, SLI brought the framework to 274 schools across five states. Our study was guided by research literature that viewed scale-up as increa…
Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Human–computer interaction (3 works)