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ERIC Number: EJ588905
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-3831
Ways of Coming To Understand: Metacognitive Awareness among First-Year University Students.
Dahlin, Bo
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v43 n2 p191-207 Jun 1999
Studied how understanding arises through interviews with 30 first-year university students. Found three main categories of conceptions: (1) experience; (2) mental construction; and (3) merging with reality. Relates results to constructivist models of learning and other phenomenographic studies of conceptions of understanding. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comprehension, Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Metacognition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Phenomenography
Note: Research supported by the Swedish Council for Research in the Human and Social Sciences.