Jurik Stiller

Die Automatisierung prozeduralen Wissens: Eine Analyse basierend auf Prozessdaten

Through the use of behavioral process data research questions considering the testtaking process can be answered. Behavioral process data gives detailed insight into the problem solving behavior of each test taker, including the activation of procedural knowledge. Procedural knowledge means knowing how to solve a task. With 112 Annette Stelter et al� a higher degree of experience this kind of knowledge will become more automated and allows persons to successfully engage in more demanding cognitive tasks. Even Problem Solving requires this automation in procedural knowledge and test takers will differ in their degree of automation. This study shows how the degree of automation can be measured with process data and is related to success in problem solving tasks. To this end, we use data from the ‘Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies’ (PIAAC). We first identify routine steps in PIAAC problem solving tasks that can be accomplished by activation of automated procedural knowledge. We measure the degree of automation through the time subjects need to take these routine steps. Logistic regression models are used to calculate the relation between the time taken and the probability of success on the task. First results show that indeed probability of success is highest, when subjects need only little time to take routine steps, presumably due to a high degree of automation.