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Peer reviewedMagnello, M. Eileen; Spies, Carl J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
Graduate psychology students were presented with statistical concepts and asked to rate their similarity-dissimilarity. Multidimensional scaling was used to judge how students organized the concepts. Results showed that the students were able to organize the materials into a meaningful structure only after the concepts were presented in an…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Educational Research, Graduate Study
