Cognitive and Psychometric Analysis of Analogical Problem Solving (Recent Research in Psychology) - Softcover

Roger Chaffin, Isaac I. Bejar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387973214 ISBN 13: 9780387973210

Verlag: Springer US, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

If one were to conduct an analysis of any profession the "ability to think analogically" is more than likely to be one of the requirements for success, be it an architectural studio, a research laboratory, a legal office, or a nuclear plant. Cognitive scientists are aware of the prominence of analogical reasoning in all forms of reasoning and learning, and have devoted substantial effort to ascer­ taining its nature. Test builders, like cognitive scientists, are aware of the cen­ trality of analogical reasoning and figure, correctly, that a test that samples a student's ability to think analogically may well be a good predictor of success in a variety of fields. This book is the result of a project to investigate analogical reasoning from both an individual differences and a cognitive perspective. The book is directed to both researchers and practitioners concerned with the nature and measurement of analogical reasoning. Cognitive scientists, linguists, psycholinguists, and natural language researchers will find the seman­ tic taxonomy and accompanying empirical results food for thought. Test devel­ opers will fmd it reassuring that performance on verbal analogy items is not just a reflection of the size of a person's vocabulary, and that tests can be designed according to principles, rather than assembled to satisfy a set of statistical speci­ fications. Psychometricians will find that content and response modelling can go together and that there are distinct benefits in approaching psychometric re­ sponse modelling from that integrative perspective.

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Reseña del editor

The major objective of the investigation presented in this book is to assess the validity of analogies, a component of the GRE General Test, from a perspective other than the prediction of grade-point average. The book examines a very practical problem in test construction: the apparent inability of item writers to regularly and predictably construct verbal items in general, and analogy items in particular, that are both difficult and sufficiently discriminating. The book demonstrates that the incorporation of results from the cognitive laboratory into the test development process is a natural step and should be attempted. The book focuses on analogical reasoning because it is a pervasive human-thought process.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0387973214
• ISBN 13: 9780387973210
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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