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Cognitive Science, 2021 AbstractThis paper reports the first empirical investigation of the hypothesis that epistemic appraisals form part of the structure of concepts. To date, studies of concepts have focused on the way concepts encode properties of objects and the way those features are used in categorization and in other cognitive tasks.
Thorne, Sapphira R. +4 more
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The Self in Research and Other Matters: A Study of Doctoral Students' Conceptions [PDF]
, 2010 This study uses metaphor analysis to examine doctoral students’ conceptions obtained from their responses to an on-line survey. The conceptions examined were the conception of self in research, the conception of the PhD, the conception of knowledge, and ...
Pitcher, Rod
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Assessment for learning? Thinking outside the (black) box [PDF]
, 2005 This article draws on a survey of 83 teachers, to explore the concepts of ‘assessment for learning’, ‘assessment’ and ‘learning’. ‘Assessment for learning’ is categorized as meaning: monitoring pupils’ performance against targets or objectives; using ...
Hargreaves, Eleanore
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Eliminating the “concept” concept [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010 AbstractMachery suggests that the concept of “concept” is too heterogeneous to serve as a “natural kind” for scientific explanation, so cognitive science should do without concepts. I second the suggestion and propose substituting, in place of concepts, inborn and acquired sensorimotor category-detectors and category-names combined into propositions ...
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A phenomenographic study of English faculty's conceptions of information literacy [PDF]
, 2007 The purpose of this research is to identify UK English academics' conceptions of information literacy and compare those conceptions with current information literacy standards and ...
Boon, Stuart +2 more
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Concepts, Conceptions, and Principles of Justice [PDF]
, 2012 G.A. Cohen argues that Rawlsian constructivism mistakenly conflates principles of justice with optimal rules of regulation, a confusion that arises out of how Rawls has us think about justice.
King, Loren
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Hedonic and Transcendent Conceptions of Value [PDF]
, 2004 In this paper we introduce a conceptual distinction between a hedonic and transcendent conception of value. We posit three linguistic earmarks by which one can distinguish these conceptions of value.
Besharov, Marya, Podolny, Joel M
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Mind & Language, 2019 AbstractConcepts are our tools for thinking. They enable us to engage in explicit reasoning about things in the world. Like physical tools, they can be more or less good, given the ways we use them—more or less dependable for categorisation, learning, induction, action‐planning, and so on.
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Sustainable University Concept and Conception
www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro, 2020 “Sustainable University” is a kind of phrase to emanate a semantic scent with connotations – traced back to an ages-old polarity, yet always at great fashion in social affairs – seemingly both conservative and progressive. Really? Can we so frivolously mix polarities, opposites, antinomies? Well, let’s see.
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Unequal relationships in high and low power distance societies: a comparative study of tutor - student role relations in Britain and China [PDF]
, 1997 This study investigated people's conceptions of an unequal role relationship in two different types of society: a high power distance society and a low power distance society. The study focuses on the role relationship of tutor and student.
Bond, M. H. +17 more
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