概念分類課題に見られる知識構造の成熟的差異の検討

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Structural knowledge is a intermediate type of knowledge, that mediates the translation of declarative knowledge into procedural knowledge and facilitates the application of procedural knowledge. Therefore structural knowledge reflects structure or architecture of declarative knowledge. In this research, forty-six concepts in dynamics were used as pieces-sort-task as to represent structural knowledge in thirty-two university students. The results could categorized into three levels as beginner, intermediate, and advanced. To find out whether these three levels came from a continuous entity, computer simulation were executed using the connectionist modeling simulation software T-Learn. The results of the simulation expressed three developmental phase as learning proceeded serially as rapidly learning phase, stagnant learning phase, and gradually learning phase. These results suggest that learning these kind of concepts may have stage-like developmental characteristics. The individual differences in structural knowledge through concepts sorting task may reflect partly degree of maturity in learning systematic scientific concepts.