1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Toward a test theory that measures knowledge and conceptual structures

Research Project

Project/Area Number	07610150
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	教育・社会系心理学
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	SHIINA Kenpei Waseda University, School of Education associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (60187317)
Project Period (FY)	1995 – 1996
Keywords	Cognitive Psychology / Test theory / instruction
Research Abstract	Toward a test theory that measures knowledge and conceptual structures. Recent upsurge of cognitive psychology produced fertile knowledge about human conceptual structures and information processings. It seems curious, however, that the results of cognitive psychology did not influence much on the test theory. Previous test theories are all sound and useful, but they have a common drawback in that they can hardly incorporate the results of cognitive psychology. The present study aims at integrating the results of cognitive psychology and the test theory. The provocative feature of the present approach is incorporate prior knowledge and cognitive models into the test theory. Several cognitive domains (Balance beam problem, arithmetic division problem, etc.) were investigated with the methodology and the results revealed the potential of the methodology.

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