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Stanners, Robert F.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
This study was concerned with assessing knowledge of concept interrelationships. Comparisons were made between performance on the concept comparison task (making a comparative judgment in the form of a rating on each pair of a set of concept labels) and essay test performance. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Essay Tests, Evaluation Methods
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Roznowski, Mary; Smith, Marna L. – Intelligence, 1993
Measurement and psychometric quality of the Sternberg task (S. Sternberg, 1966, 1969), a memory search task, was investigated with 78 undergraduates. Individual performance was fairly homogeneous across responses, fairly unstable over time, and fairly stable across stimulus content. Implications for individual differences research are discussed.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Rogoff, Barbara; Gardner, William P. – 1981
In this study four research strategies used in previous studies of the socialization of cognitive skills were first contrasted and then assessed in terms of five criteria. (The data base for this study was 32 videotapes of mothers preparing their 7- or 9-year-old children to take a memory test.) The four strategies (frequency coding, fine-grained…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis