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1. Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own

   By Roger C. Schank

   In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those educated...

   Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
2. Scrooge Meets Dick and Jane

   By Roger C. Schank

   To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them. Excitement about learning doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda. The villains are those who profit from testing mania, make the tests, coach for testing, publish the books on which...

   Published December 31st 2000 by Routledge
3. Inside Multi-Media Case Based Instruction

   Edited by Roger C. Schank

   The fourth in the Inside series, this volume includes four theses completed under the editor's direction at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. This series bridges the gap between Schank's books introducing (for a popular audience) the theories behind his work in...

   Published July 12th 1998 by Routledge
4. Inside Multi-Media Case Based Instruction

   Edited by Roger C. Schank

   The fourth in the Inside series, this volume includes four theses completed under the editor's direction at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. This series bridges the gap between Schank's books introducing (for a popular audience) the theories behind his work in...

   Published April 30th 1998 by Routledge
5. Engines for Education

   By Roger C. Schank, Chip Cleary

   Most six-year-olds can't wait to go to school on that first day in September. It's a sign of coming of age. They get to go to school like the big kids. For an alarmingly large number of these children, however, boredom, anxiety, and fear of learning quickly set in. This happens because societies...

   Published April 30th 1995 by Routledge
6. Inside Case-Based Explanation

   Edited by Roger C. Schank, Alex Kass, Christopher K. Riesbeck

   Series: Artificial Intelligence Series

   This book is the third volume in a series that provides a hands-on perspective on the evolving theories associated with Roger Schank and his students. The primary focus of this volume is on constructing explanations. All of the chapters relate to the problem of building computer programs that can...

   Published April 30th 1994 by Psychology Press
7. Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making

   Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson

   Edited by Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer

   It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and...

   Published April 30th 1994 by Psychology Press
8. Inside Case-Based Reasoning

   By Christopher K. Riesbeck, Roger C. Schank

   Series: Artificial Intelligence Series

   Introducing issues in dynamic memory and case-based reasoning, this comprehensive volume presents extended descriptions of four major programming efforts conducted at Yale during the past several years. Each descriptive chapter is followed by a companion chapter containing the micro program version...

   Published June 30th 1989 by Psychology Press
9. Reading and Understanding

   Teaching From the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence

   By Roger C. Schank

   Series: Psychology of Reading and Reading Instruction Series

   Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have discovered a great deal about reading while striving to teach computers to read. This information, however, has been of small benefit in our schools since AI researchers usually have little contact with educators or researchers involved with teaching...

   Published December 31st 1981 by Psychology Press
10. Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding

    An Inquiry Into Human Knowledge Structures

    By Roger C. Schank, Robert P. Abelson

    Series: Artificial Intelligence Series

    Published June 30th 1977 by Psychology Press