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Peer reviewedNickerson, Raymond S. – American Journal of Education, 1985
Several experimental studies are reviewed, the results of which suggest that students often fail to acquire an understanding of some of the concepts, relationships, principles, and processes that are fundamental to traditional high school course material. Questions of what it means to understand something and of how to assess understanding are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Definitions
