The Measurement of Knowledge Construction in A Course of Diagnostic Evaluation of Learning Disorders in Psychology Students

Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales-Martinez, Michelle Garcia-Torres, Maria del Carmen Castro-Gonzalez, Yanko Norberto Mezquita-Hoyos

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This study evaluated the effects of academic learning on the organization and structure of a knowledge schema among psychology students. The authors designed three studies based on the Chronometric Constructive Cognitive Learning Evaluation Model. This article describes the first method of evaluation, which included a conceptual definition task based on the Natural Semantic Networks technique. The participants' task was to define ten target concepts using verbs, nouns, or adjectives as definers, and then rate the quality of each definer, taking into account the degree of semantic relationship between it and the target concept. The results suggest that the students' initial knowledge schema underwent modifications due to the restructuration of the cognitive structure of knowledge, the assimilation of new information nodes, and the elimination or establishment of new relationships between the conceptual nodes of the knowledge schema. The measurement of these cognitive expressions of academic learning through mental representation techniques can have relevant implications for cognitive characterization in student learning and the design of new teaching strategies that take account of the cognitive psychology principles of information processing underlying academic learning.

https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.20.8.15


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learning evaluation; knowledge schema; cognitive construction; Natural Semantic Networks; psychology students

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