The Associative Field as a Diagnostic Instrument in Assessing the Breadth of Multi-Contextual Concepts: the Concept "Development.".

Jungwirth, Ehud

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Associative Field as a Diagnostic Instrument in Assessing the Breadth of Multi-Contextual Concepts: the Concept "Development."

Jungwirth, Ehud

International Journal of Science Education, v10 n5 p571-79 Oct-Dec 1988

Investigated were the connotative meanings of the concept "development" in respondents' cognitive structure using a free-association approach. The sample included 6th, 9th, and 11th grade students, student-teachers, and biology teachers. Reports a paucity of multicontextuality; the majority of subjects' associations referred to biology only. (Author/YP)

Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Association Measures, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Development, Schemata (Cognition), Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Science

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Identifiers - Location: Israel

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