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Information Acquisition in History Ph.D. Students: Inferencing and the Formation of Knowledge Structures.
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Cole, Charles – Library Quarterly, 1998
Reports the results of a study of 45 Ph.D. history students who were asked questions about cognitive activity related to information events based on a grounded theory approach. Topics include knowledge acquisition; information process; a situation model theory of reading comprehension; elaborative inferencing; and domain experts versus domain…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Doctoral Programs, History
Information as Process: The Difference between Corroborating Evidence and "Information" in Humanistic Research Domains.
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Cole, Charles – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Reports the results of a non-randomized study of 45 history Ph.D. students in England and discusses the results in terms of the theory of knowledge structure and the modification of knowledge structure due to information. Topics include information as process; a model of stages of the information process; and grounded theory. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries