TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring students' cognitive structures in learning science: a review of relevant methods
T2 - Journal of Biological Education
AU - Tsai, Chin-Chung
AU - Huang, Chao-Ming
N1 - doi: 10.1080/00219266.2002.9655827
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Understanding how people think and how people organise knowledge are always major concerns for educational researchers. Hence, educators have developed various ways of representing learners' ‘cognitive structures‘. This article provides a review of the use of five methods of representing cognitive structures - free word association, controlled word association, tree construction, concept map and flow map. Through comparing the types of analyses that are generated from these cognitive structure representation methods, this paper discusses the applications, as well as the limitations, among these methods.
AB - Understanding how people think and how people organise knowledge are always major concerns for educational researchers. Hence, educators have developed various ways of representing learners' ‘cognitive structures‘. This article provides a review of the use of five methods of representing cognitive structures - free word association, controlled word association, tree construction, concept map and flow map. Through comparing the types of analyses that are generated from these cognitive structure representation methods, this paper discusses the applications, as well as the limitations, among these methods.
U2 - 10.1080/00219266.2002.9655827
DO - 10.1080/00219266.2002.9655827
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-9266
VL - 36
SP - 163
EP - 169
JO - Journal of Biological Education
JF - Journal of Biological Education
IS - 4
ER -