Jill Huston Larkin (born July 15, 1943) is an American cognitive scientist, science educator and Professor at the

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known for her work on information representations.

Biography

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Larkin obtained her BA in Mathematics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1965, her MA in Physics from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1972, and her PhD in Science and Mathematics education from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.Curriculum Vitae: Jill H. Larkin
1978. Accessed December 4, 2015. Larkin started her career as High school teacher in mathematics in the year 1965–1966 at the Milton Academy at Milton, Massachusetts, and at the Tefari Mekonen School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the years 1966–1968, where she chaired the mathematics department the second year. After her PhD graduation she was appointed Assistant research physicist and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1978 she moved to the

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, where she became Research Associate in its Psychology Department. Larkin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 in the field of computer science.

Selected publications

* Larkin, Jill H. ''The role of problem representation in physics.'' Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie–Mellon University, Department of Psychology, 1981. * Larkin, Jill H., and Ruth W. Chabay. ''Computer-Assisted Instruction and Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Shared Goals and Complementary Approaches.'' Technology in Education Series. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1992. Articles, a selection: * Larkin, J. H., McDermott, J., Simon, D. P., & Simon, H. A. (1980). "Models of Competence in Solving Physics Problems." ''Cognitive science,'' 4(4), 317–345. * Briars, Diane J., and Jill H. Larkin. "An integrated model of skill in solving elementary word problems." ''Cognition and instruction'' 1.3 (1984): 245–296. * Larkin, Jill H., and

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.
Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words.
''Cognitive science'' 11.1 (1987): 65–100.

References

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