Measures of Cognitive Structure: Do They Assess Learning at the Level of Comprehension?.

Driscoll, Marcy Perkins

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Measures of Cognitive Structure: Do They Assess Learning at the Level of Comprehension?

Driscoll, Marcy Perkins

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v10 n1 p38-51 Jan 1985

This study of college undergraduates had two purposes: (1) to determine whether cognitive structure, as assessed by psychometric measures of concept interrelatedness, can be developed; and (2) to apply those measures to a learning situation that has produced a nonspecific transfer effect--the facilitative effect of concrete examples on learning abstract passages. (Author/BS)

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Measurement Techniques, Recall (Psychology), Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training

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