Content Structure, Cognitive Structure and Advance Organizer in Mathematics Instruction

Abstract

The aspects of assessment in teaching-learning process consist of aspects in knowledge and skill dimension, creative ability dimension and attitudial and affective dimension. In addition to these dimensions, having the technique to assess the cognitive structure of learners, as the 4th dimension, we shall have a very useful technique to assess learners synthetically. One of techniques to assess the cognitive structure is Word-Association Test (WA-Test). In the present paper, the procedures of WA-Test are stated. Especially applications of WA-Test for researches of advance organizers and practical teaching-learning processes are stated and discussed.