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Putting context into context: a rejoinder to Richardson
Author(s) -
Roberts Maxwell J.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1996.tb01218.x
Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , domain (mathematical analysis) , cognitive psychology , epistemology , social psychology , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , paleontology , biology
Richardson (1996) criticises Roberts & Stevenson (1996) on two counts: that their classification of the commentaries used by Richardson (1991) is in error, and that this is also confounded with item difficulty. Both claims are refuted here: the first by a demonstration of the validity of the classification, the second by using published norms on item difficulty. It is concluded that Richardson has not supplied evidence that disproves the existence of domain‐free reasoning processes, and it is suggested that he is attempting to resolve a false dichotomy: context‐specific knowledge and domain‐free reasoning processes are not mutually exclusive.