Research Methodology
  1. Choose a human learning task
  2. Study textbooks
  3. Collect learning protocols
  4. Identify knowledge used
  5. Produce "paper model"
  6. Psychological Experiments
  7. Develop computational model
  8. Test model
The research methodology of this work is essentially that of Cognitive Science, as for example epitomized by the work of John Anderson. There are a number of stages:
1. Choose a suitable learning task which humans perform.
2. Study textbooks which cover the subject.
3. Collect protocols of students learning the subject from the textbooks.
4. Identify the knowledge that is being used to perform the tasks.
5. Produce a paper model that uses this knowledge similar in approach to Turing's paper models to play games, but not necessarily rule based models.
6. Devise psychological experiments to test the model by comparing its precictions with the behaviour of human subjects.
7. Develop a computational model of the learning task.
The last stage is by far the most time consuming.