The development of specific educational-diagnostic subject texts to explore predictors of intellectual resources during adolescence: problem, background and basis

Abstract

Based on the Russian language the article is dedicated to the problem of the evaluation tools’ development, assessing not only subject but also metasubject results. Subtests developed for the teenagers on the basis of the Russian language (“Cognitive generalization’’, “Notional synthesis”, “Involuntary categorization”, “Cognitive content of the concept”) are aimed at the evaluation of study of cognitive structures and knowledge and conceptual experience in the Russian language. The subtests are structures according to the principle of psychodiagnostics tools suggested by M.A. Holodnaya for the study of ways of categorical generalization, conceptual synthesis and conceptual experience. There was confirmed structural and external criterion validity (criterion – academic progress).

Keywords

• conceptual thinking
• educational and diagnostic subject text
• teenagers
• universal cognitive educational actions
• individual cognitive system