Abstract:Assessing a student's conceptual understanding of a particular subject is challenging as a result of its abstract complexity and personal nature. A schema-based framework for describing the relationship between grouped knowledge sets can be used to visualize and represent aspects of conceptual understanding. This paper puts forth a set of criteria to indicate when a student's solution generation process fails as a result of inadequately defined schemata. A three-year longitudinal study involving semi-structure… Show more
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