Sivaramakrishnan, Malathi; Arocha, José F.; Patel, Vimla L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 47 (1998) 6, pp. 697-712
knowledge of the world which determines their reasoning process, their comprehension and their problems solving. The results are … assessment tools should be devised that can tap prior knowledge and understanding, such that this can be analyzed and understood … in relation to knowledge taught in the classroom. Current educational assessment fails in such an endeavor. …