Date of Award
1967
Degree Name
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
Tyler (i932, 1934) was responsible for some of the most important research with cognitive achievement measures. In studies with college students he found that factual knowledge gains dissipated after one year at the rate of seventy-seven per cent of the initial gain during the period of instruction. In the same study the gain in ability to apply principles to new situations and the ability to interpret new experiments resulted in no loss after one year. Rather, the ability to interpret new experiments showed an increase after one year, though none of the Subjects (Ss) in the study had taken additional course work in the subject area upon which items were based. Cronbach (1960) points out that changes of thinking habits are usually much more lasting than factual knowledge.
Subject(s)
Cognitive consistency - Research.
Critical thinking -- Research.
Recommended Citation
Childers, LaDonna Wallace, "A comparison of cognitive achievement measures in student evaluation" (1967). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 2000.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/2000
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