The DOI matches its Crossref record; 3 of the 3 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Human constructivism: A unification of psychological and epistemological phenomena in meaning making
Abstract
Ausubel's (1963, 1968, 1978) assimilation theory of learning is used to describe the process by which humans engage in meaningful learning. High levels of meaningful learning are characterized as underlying the process of new knowledge construction. Concept maps and Vee diagrams are employed to illustrate aspects of assimilation theory, foundational constructivist epistemological ideas, and tools that can facilitate meaningful learning and knowledge construction. The central thesis is that the process of meaningful learning, as understood through assimilation theory, is fundamental to both the psychological process of cognitive development of individuals and the epistemological process of new knowledge construction.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Novak, J. D., Gowin, D. B., & Kahle, J. B. (1984) · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139173469 · Cited by 5,199
Self-citationConcept mapping: A useful tool for science education
Novak, J. D. (1990) · Journal of Research in Science Teaching · doi:10.1002/tea.3660271003 · Cited by 1,032
Self-citationThe Tension Between Theories of Learning and Instruction in Mathematics Education
Cobb, P. (1988) · Educational Psychologist · doi:10.1207/s15326985ep2302_2 · Cited by 264
Cited by
Novak, J. D. (2002) · Science Education · doi:10.1002/sce.10032 · Cited by 914
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Novak, J. D.
- Venue
- International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1993-04
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 167-193
- ISSN
- 0893-603X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1987566271
- Cited by
- 217
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 3.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Human constructivism: A unification of psychological and epistemological phenomena in meaning making. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/08936039308404338
- The paper
- Novak, J. D. (1993). Human constructivism: A unification of psychological and epistemological phenomena in meaning making. International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08936039308404338
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
