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Peer reviewedRowan, Katherine E. – Written Communication, 1990
Identifies a particular class of explanatory discourse, and proposes hypotheses about the types of knowledge likely to be associated with skill in this genre. Finds that variations in accuracy and adaptiveness of students' explanations were partially accounted for by measures of topic knowledge, social cognition, and discourse knowledge. (MG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Download full textvan 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
