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van Drie, Jannet; van Boxtel, Carla – Educational Psychology Review, 2008
This article explores historical reasoning, an important activity in history learning. Based upon an extensive review of empirical literature on students' thinking and reasoning about history, a theoretical framework of historical reasoning is proposed. The framework consists of six components: asking historical questions, using sources,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, History Instruction, Time Perspective, Cognitive Structures
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Mayfield, Wayne A.; Kardash, CarolAnne M.; Kivlighan, Dennis M., Jr. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1999
Uses concept mapping tasks and association tasks to examine knowledge structures about clients. Four experienced and five novice counselors read a counseling transcript, categorized client statements, and mapped the relationships among categories. Results support the information-processing perspective with novice counselors attending to surface…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Characteristics
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Einsiedler, Wolfgang – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1996
Asks whether theories of knowledge representation provide a basis for the development of theories of knowledge structuring in instruction. Discusses codes of knowledge, surface versus deep structures, semantic networks, and multiple memory systems. Reviews research on teaching, external representation of cognitive structures, hierarchical…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
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Ribbins, Peter; Gunter, Helen – Educational Management & Administration, 2002
The first of two linked articles discusses leadership and associated concepts. Outlines and illustrates a mapping typology built around five knowledge domains (conceptual, critical, humanist, evaluative, and instrumental) and seven factors (purpose, focus, context, method, audience, communication, and impact). (Contains 9 notes and 93 references.)…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning)
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Novak, Joseph D. – Instructional Science, 1990
Describes two metacognitive tools, concept mapping and Vee diagraming, and reports on classroom research utilizing these tools in grade one through university instruction. Psychological and epistemological foundations of these tools are discussed, and student attitude changes after using these tools are reported. (64 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Change, Classroom Research, Cognitive Psychology
Shavelson, Richard J.; And Others – 1993
One potential approach to the authentic assessment of what students know and can do in science is concept mapping. A concept map is a graph consisting of nodes representing concepts and labeled lines denoting the relation between a pair of nodes (concepts). The external concept map constructed by the student is interpreted as representing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Construct Validity, Educational Assessment