“…In the literature, such tests have been employed in the context of sciences (Balbağ, 2018;Nergiz, 2022;Özyurt and Yalman, 2020;Roncevic, 2023;Sarıoğlan and Deveci, 2021;Sikumbang, Rakhmawati, and Suwandi, 2019;Timur et al, 2020) and social studies (Çelik, 2020;Gençoğlu, 2019;İlker & Aktaşlı, 2022;Lam, Sheng, & Zhang, 2023;Şentürk & Keskin, 2023;Yılmaz, 2019). There are also studies using word association tests in Life Studies courses (Ekici & Bilici, 2017;Gündoğan & Gültekin, 2018;Tezcan, 2019). However, no example has been found which addresses the relationship between learning objectives and root values and learners' cognitive structure concerning values in one single study.…”