Techniques for Assessing and Representing Information in Cognitive Structure.

The article investigates techniques for assessing and representing information in cognitive structure by researchers from Madison, Wisconsin. Researchers in science education should focus increased attention on science content as a research variable. With this admonition in mind, an attempt has been made to describe means by which in science students' cognitive structures might be assessed and then graphically represented. Both the assessment and representation techniques described in this paper deal with meaning and consequently could be of great value in learning studies.