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Lane, Suzanne – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1991
Cognitive psychologists and measurement specialists have identified several methods for assessing students' knowledge structures. Applications of the Concept Structure Analysis Technique and MicroCAM (a computer-aided method) are described. Other research into schema knowledge is noted. These assessment procedures provide information about student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Silver, Edward A. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1992
This study examined the hypothesis that prior experience with augmented-quotient problems would positively influence performance on remainder-only problems and quotient-only problems. Analysis of sixth through eighth grade students' (n=545) responses to test forms that systematically varied the order of appearance of these three division problems,…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Computation
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Bonotto, C. – L'Insegnamento della Matematica e delle Scienze Integrate, 1993
Examined fifth-grade students' survey responses to investigate incorrect rules that derive from children's efforts to interpret decimals as integers or as fractions. Regarding fractions, difficulties arise because only the whole-part approach to fractions is presented in elementary school. (Author/MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Decimal Fractions, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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Ellerton, Nerida; Clements, M. A. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1992
Reviews the radical constructivism movement in mathematics education. Benefits identified include learner ownership of mathematical learning; importance of social interaction; and identification of principles for improving mathematics teaching and learning. Weaknesses identified include overzealousness of some radical constructivists; downplaying…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning)
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Erwin, Robin W. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1985
Discusses the importance of instruction in metacognition, the mental process of observing, evaluating, and making adjustments in one's own thinking behavior to enhance comprehension during a learning activity. Reviews educational programs which have taught metacognitive behaviors and charts a model instructional approach for use in the college…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Comprehension
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Galili, Igal; Hazan, Amnon – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Explores high school students' and preservice teachers' knowledge of light, vision, and related topics before and after commonly practiced instruction. Suggests a hierarchical structure to represent the collective conceptual knowledge of students and teachers in terms of facets and schemes of knowledge. Makes suggestions for designing instruction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, High Schools
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Rittschof, Kent A.; And Others – Journal of Geography, 1996
Maintains that region familiarity is an important prerequisite in the instructional use of cartograms. Cartograms are value-by-area maps that increase or decrease areas in order to illustrate various data (e.g. book reading in the western United States). Discusses necessary cognitive processes for the visualization of data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cartography, Cognitive Structures, Cues, Encoding (Psychology)
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Charters, Elizabeth – College Quarterly, 2004
Analysts predict that the knowledge economy of the near future will require people to be both computer literate and print literate. However, some of the reading and thinking habits of current college students suggest that electronic media such as web browsers may be limiting the new generation's ability to absorb and process what they read. Their…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Illiteracy, Internet, Information Processing
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Barnett, Ronald; Phipps, Alison – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2005
The Great Khan's atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tamoe, New Harmony, New Lanark, Icaria. Kublai asked Marco: "You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can you tell me towards which of these futures the favouring winds…
Descriptors: Travel, Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Global Approach
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DeWitt, Jennifer; Osborne, Jonathan – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
Although science centres and museums are important educational resources, school trips to these places are not often conducted in a manner that could maximise learning. In addressing this issue, a Framework for Museum Practice (FMP) is proposed, derived from the perspectives of Cultural Historical Activity Theory, theories of intrinsic motivation,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Institutional Cooperation, Coordination, Partnerships in Education
Stine, Deborah E. – 1996
An administrator's daily life is full of decisions that often involve an "on the spot" solution. This paper discusses some of the principles involved in drawing inferences in research and decision making, and describes how a knowledge of decision-making errors can help administrators. The paper also describes a case study that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Data Interpretation, Decision Making
Goos, Merrilyn – 1995
This paper addresses the evidence that secondary school students use to imply that they understand something in mathematics. As part of a larger study, an open-ended questionnaire probing several aspects of metacognitive self-knowledge, was administered to students (N=72) in four schools. Two previously identified types of understanding were…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Cultural Context
Goos, Merrilyn – 1996
This paper describes the actions of one secondary school mathematics teacher in establishing a community of mathematical practice within which students acquire not only knowledge and skills, but also the epistemological values of mathematics. Classroom observations over a period of 18 months, together with interview and questionnaire data, are…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Cultural Context
Wallace, Andrew R.; Sinclair, Kenneth E. – 1995
New electronic technologies provide powerful tools for managing and processing the rapidly increasing amounts of information available for learning; teachers, however, have often been slow in integrating computers into the curriculum. This study addresses the question of how prospective teachers construct affective and cognitive models about…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Structures, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes
Luzzo, Darrell Anthony – 1994
This study assessed the relative value of Bandura's (1977, 1982, 1986) self-efficacy theory and Rotter's (1966) locus of control model in predicting the career maturity of college students. A sample of 113 undergraduates (83 women and 30 men) completed a demographics questionnaire and measures of career decision-making (CDM) self-efficacy (Taylor…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
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