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Janet L. Kolodner

Janet L. Kolodner

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Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
23374
World Ranking
6285
National Ranking
2810

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For pioneering research on case-based reasoning and learning, including memory organization, information retrieval, problem solving, and knowledge acquisition.

Overview

Janet L. Kolodner is affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily in Social Sciences and Computer Science, with notable contributions to Education, Computer Science Applications, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scholar's work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Teaching and Learning Programming
  • Biomedical and Engineering Education
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Education Systems and Policy

Janet L. Kolodner's recent scholarly articles include:

  • "Learning engineering: What it is, why I'm involved, and why I think more of you should be" (2023) published in the Journal of the Learning Sciences
  • "Imagining and designing the future of education: a critical review of Allan Collins' What's Worth Teaching: Rethinking Curriculum in the Age of Technology (Imaginando y diseñando el futuro de la educación: una revisión crítica del libro de Allan Collins ¿Qué Merece la Pena Enseñar? Repensar el Currículum en la Era de la Tecnología)" (2022) published in the Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje
  • "Artificial intelligence education in Georgia middle schools" (2025) published in AI Magazine, coauthored with David S. Touretzky

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Melita Morales
  • David S. Touretzky
  • Christina Gardner-McCune
  • Bryan Cox
  • Judith Uchidiuno

Janet L. Kolodner publishes regularly in venues such as the Journal of the Learning Sciences, Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje, and AI Magazine.

In 1992, Janet L. Kolodner received the title of Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for pioneering research on case-based reasoning and learning, encompassing memory organization, information retrieval, problem solving, and knowledge acquisition.

Best Publications

  • Case-based reasoning

    Janet Kolodner

  • What Is Case-Based Reasoning?

    Janet Kolodner

  • Problem-Based Learning Meets Case-Based Reasoning in the Middle-School Science Classroom: Putting Learning by Design(tm) Into Practice

    Janet L. Kolodner;Paul J. Camp;David Crismond;Barbara Fasse

  • An introduction to case-based reasoning

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Designing to Learn About Complex Systems

    Cindy E. Hmelo;Douglas L. Holton;Janet L. Kolodner

  • Educational Implications of Analogy: A View from Case-Based Reasoning

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Maintaining organization in a dynamic long-term memory *

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Improving human decision making through case-based decision aiding

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Retrieval and organizational strategies in conceptual memory : a computer model

    Janet Lynne Kolodner

  • Toward implementing distributed scaffolding: Helping students learn science from design

    Sadhana Puntambekar;Janet L. Kolodner

  • Reconstructive memory: A computer model*

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Retrieval and Organizational Strategies in Conceptual Memory (PLE: Memory) : A Computer Model

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Towards an understanding of the role of experience in the evolution from novice to expert

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • A process model of cased-based reasoning in problem solving

    Janet L. Kolodner;Robert L. Simpson;Katia Sycara-Cyranski

  • Facilitating the Learning of Design Practices: Lessons Learned from an Inquiry into Science Education.

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • The MEDIATOR: Analysis of an early case-based problem solver

    Janet L. Kolodner;Robert L. Simpson

  • AI Grand Challenges for Education

    Beverly Park Woolf;H. Chad Lane;Vinay K. Chaudhri;Janet L. Kolodner

  • Representation in case-based reasoning

    Ralph Bergmann;Janet Kolodner;Enric Plaza

  • Case-based design support: a case study in architectural design

    M. Pearce;A.K. Goel;I.L. Kolodner;C. Zimring

  • Extending Problem Solver Capabilities Through Case-Based Inference

    Janet L. Kolodner

  • Experience, Memory and Reasoning

    Janet L. Kolodner;Christopher K. Riesbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Guzdial
Mark Guzdial University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ashwin Ram
Ashwin Ram Georgia Institute of Technology
Ashok K. Goel
Ashok K. Goel Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy Koschmann
Timothy Koschmann Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Janet K. Allen
Janet K. Allen University of Oklahoma
Nancy J. Nersessian
Nancy J. Nersessian Harvard University
Roger C. Schank
Roger C. Schank Socratic Arts
Marlene Scardamalia
Marlene Scardamalia University of Toronto
Allan Collins
Allan Collins Northwestern University
Ronald C. Arkin
Ronald C. Arkin Georgia Institute of Technology

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