Stephanie Kiser, Antonio Bush, Mollie Scott, Scott A Davis
Revealing rural motivations in pharmacy students pursuing a graduate certificate program
Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning
children active learners learn information people offer evidence happen observe actively seeking information however childrens information search strategies typically less efficient adults two studies isolate potential sources developmental change children 7 10yearolds adults search information develop hierarchical version 20questions game participants either ask questions study 1 test individual objects study 2 discover category objects within nested structure eg animals birds owls novel property also develop computational model task allows us evaluate performance quantitative terms expected find developmental improvement efficiency information search addition show participants performance exceeds random search falls short optimal performance find mixed support idea childrens inefficiency stems difficulty thinking beyond level individual objects hypotheses instead reveal previously undocumented source developmental change children significantly likely adults continue search information beyond point single hypothesis remains thus ask questions select objects associated zero information gain suggests one crucial source developmental change information search efficiency lies childrens stopping rules psycinfo database record