CBR:Complex Thinking Support

This research study focused on learning lessons from the experience of designing a case based reasoning (CBR) tool for support of thinking skills. Thinking skills based on some learning standards, state testing, curricula, teaching and learning resources used, and research scopes. Complex thinking is the core of high order thinking. Complex thinking is engaged when different types of thinking and action converge to resolve a real-world, ill-structured issues such as solving a problem, designing an artifact, or making a decision. By integrating reasoning, memory, and learning in a model of cognition for learning from concrete problem-solving experience, CBR can be used to engage complex thinking. In similar and different ways, CBR theory and the related theories that promotes learning from concrete, ill-structured problem solving experience. This research study was carried out using developmental research methodology and a standard development model. The design process included front-end analysis, creating a prototype of the tool, and evaluating the prototype.