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Mertz, Norma T.; McNeely, Sonja R. – 1991
The study reported here is the first step in what is intended to be a multi-stage project to follow 10 prepreparation students as they move through the teacher preparation program and begin to teach. This first stage explored the question of whether these students held cognitive constructs about teaching and what these constructs were like. Data…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Kerchner, Charles; And Others – 1990
The early stages of a microcomputer-based project to integrate managerial knowledge and practice are described in this report. Analysis of the problem-framing process that effective principals use to reduce complex problems into more manageable ones forms the basis of the project. Three cognitive-mapping techniques are used to understand the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style
Richards, Boyd – 1984
Using schema theory as a contextual framework, three studies were conducted to examine the effects of two triggering mechanisms on transfer of learning across two noncontiguous passages: similar terminology for shared concepts and a brief review of the first passage read immediately before the second passage. The first two studies served to pilot…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Instructional Materials
Hartoonian, Michael – 1990
History and the social sciences can be defined as recorded narratives or stories about the past or present that describe change and continuity over time and seek to explain this change and continuity through a series of cause and effect propositions based on evidence and shaped by the scholar's social frame of reference. In social studies there…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
Amir, Ruth; Tamir, Pinchas – 1990
A great number of misconceptions in diverse subject areas as well as across age levels have been documented and described. Photosynthesis is one of the more intensively studied areas in biology. The purpose of this research was to carefully select and define misconceptions about photosynthesis needing remedial efforts. To achieve this, a specially…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Biology, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
Ball, Deborah Loewenberg – 1990
Learning to teach mathematics for understanding is not easy. First, practice itself is complex. Second, many teachers' traditional experiences with and orientations to mathematics and its pedagogy are additional hindrances. This paper examines teaching practices and reviews some of what is known about prospective and experienced elementary…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Marmaridou, A. Sophia S. – 1990
Extracts from financial reports broadcast on two British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio channels are analyzed for cognitive structures that affect the conceptual organization of this discourse type. The approach used for the analysis is based on two assumptions in the relationship of communication and cognition. These are: (1) financial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Discourse Analysis, Economics, Foreign Countries
Anderson, Jeremy – 1986
This document contains lessons designed for teaching geography and map skills to intermediate level students, although many may be adapted to other grade levels. The lessons place heavy reliance on children making a series of individual and collective maps. The 16 lessons included are: (1) mental maps; (2) conventional maps; (3) map elements; (4)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Concepts, Geography
Schewe, Annette; Froese, Victor – 1986
Focusing on variables linking fourth graders' reading comprehension and writing ability, a study investigated the (1) relationship between both free recall and comprehension probe scores in reading and analytical scale scores in writing, (2) effects of reading and writing competence on the production of story grammar categories in writing, (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement
Greenberg, Gregory S.; And Others – 1985
When in childhood concepts about alcohol and drinking begin to develop has just begun to be investigated. A study was conducted to examine cognitive, maturational, and differential exposure influences on the acquisition of concepts about alcoholic beverages in preschool children. Knowledge about alcoholic beverages and drinking was assessed in 65…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcoholic Beverages, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Clement, John; Brown, David – 1984
In this paper examples of the role of analogical reasoning in expert problem solving are presented. These are intended to show that using an analogy can change an expert's understanding of a problem situation by changing the conceptual model he or she uses to think about the situation. This suggests that using a good analogy may allow students to…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Structures, College Science, Concept Formation
Clement, John – 1983
This paper presents evidence to indicate that spontaneously generated analogies can play a significant role in the problem solving process of scientifically trained individuals. In addition, it is suggested that these individuals exhibit more than one method for generating analogies. Ten scientists (representing physics, mathematics, and computer…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Structures, College Science, Concept Formation
Clement, John – 1987
In this study 34 spontaneous analogies produced by 16 college freshmen while solving qualitative physics problems are analyzed. A number of the analogies were invalid in the sense that they led to an incorrect answer from the physicist's point of view. However, many were valid, and a few were powerful in the sense that they seemed not only to help…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Structures, College Science, Concept Formation
Radford, David L. – 1989
A model for developing instructional analogies was used to produce experimental treatments that included text from a high school biology textbook to which was added extended verbal analogies written by the researcher linking each of two biology concepts to analogous familiar concepts. The control treatment was text from the biology textbook…
Descriptors: Analogy, Biology, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Connell, Michael L. – 1989
The mathematical experiences of elementary students often focus on memorizing facts and rules as opposed to making sense of the subject and developing problem solving skills. Students spend large amounts of time processing, memorizing and sorting collections of data which are tasks well performed by computer technology. To correct this situation,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation
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