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Bilgin, Ayse A. B. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: While the natural expectation is that students seek greater depth of learning as they develop intellectually during their studies, some research calls this into question and even suggests that student learning can become shallower from year to year. The present study aims to investigate the relative depth of students' learning at…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Attitudes, Statistics, Teaching Methods
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Demetriou, Andreas; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Describes a theory of cognition which posits specialized structural systems (SSSs) that enable individuals to represent and understand domains of knowledge. Three test batteries assessed 12-16 year olds' abilities to think combinatorially, form hypotheses, design experiments, and construct models or theories. Suggests that the results of tests…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Causal Models, Cognitive Development
Hershkowitz, Rina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
The ideas presented in this lecture are based on the observation of processes of construction and consolidation of knowledge by individual students learning in groups within classrooms along a sequence of activities. Whereas the uniformity of the basic elements used to describe the knowledge construction processes may be seen as inclusive, there…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Cognitive Structures, Learning Processes, Individual Differences
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Tracey, Terence J. G.; Lent, Robert W.; Brown, Steven D.; Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
We explored the ''idiothetic'' cognitive structure of RIASEC occupational percepts in a sample of Italian middle and high school students over a one year period, examining the possible bidirectional linkages between cognitive-vocational structure, involvement in career exploration activities, and exposure to authoritative parenting style. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Interest Inventories, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students
van de Wiel, Margaretha W. J.; And Others – 1994
In this study Dutch subjects with four different levels of expertise (24 second-year, 24 fourth-year, 24 sixth-year medical students, and 24 internists with at least 4 years of experience) studied, diagnosed, and explained four clinical cases. Diagnostic accuracy increased with the increasing level of expertise. The number of concepts used and the…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures