ASSESSMENT OF CONTENT AND COGNITIVE STRUCTURES IN PHYSICS AT COLLEGE LEVEL |
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| Authors: | Marco Antonio Moreira |
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| Institution: | Institute of Physics and Regina Calderipe Costa Department of Physics , Federal University of Rio do Grande and Federal University of Pebotas |
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| Abstract: | First, the theory of directed graphs (digraphs) was used to map the conceptual structure of the content, implicit in the instructional materials, in the area of electricity at college level. After this, the graphical representation of content structure, thus obtained, was compared with those obtained for the teacher's cognitive structure and the student's cognitive structure through a word association test and the multidimensional scaling technique. Research findings suggest mainly that the techniques used to assess content and cognitive structures might be useful tools for such a purpose. |
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