understanding
Let an agent explain understanding as a concept and how it is assessed, distinguish it from knowledge, comprehension and belief, relay research from psychology and education with attribution, and route personal learning questions to educational resources.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain understanding as a concept and how it is assessed, distinguish it from knowledge, comprehension and belief, relay research from psychology and education with attribution, and route personal learning questions to educational resources.
The mental state or capacity of grasping the meaning, nature or significance of something, whether a text, a situation, a person or a subject, going beyond recognition to explanation, inference and application; understanding is studied in psychology, education and philosophy and measured in forms such as reading and listening comprehension.
What it is for: Grasping meaning to act, explain and learn.
It can be explain the concept and its kinds; distinguish understanding from knowledge and belief; relay research on comprehension and assessment; support learning and teaching questions.
Distinguishing features
Grasp of meaning and relations
Shown in explanation and transfer
Degrees and depths
Studied across disciplines
What it looks like
Not visible; inferred from explanation, application and performance.
How it is recognised
Grasp of meaning shown by explanation and use
Assessed by comprehension tasks
Knowing facts and holding beliefs are related but distinct
Related models
is a kind of - a cognitive state
is a kind of - as a capacity
is related to - a neighbouring concept
is assessed by - in education
In practice
Families and kinds
reading and listening comprehension
conceptual understanding in learning
mutual understanding between people
lay and expert understanding
understanding in philosophy as an epistemic state
policy insight and applied understanding
Standards and regulation
Educational assessment standards for comprehension
Language proficiency frameworks such as CEFR for listening and reading
Failure modes and hazards
Mistaking recognition for understanding
Illusions of understanding
Assessments that measure recall only
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.understanding
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept What understanding is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is understanding, and how does it differ from knowledge, comprehension and belief? definition
- Is the question about a mental capacity, a text comprehension task or mutual understanding? boundary
Kinds
Kinds and depths.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What kinds and depths of understanding are distinguished in education and philosophy? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Measure Assessing understanding.
Method.
Assessment
Assessment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How is understanding assessed, from comprehension tests to transfer tasks? measurement
- Which frameworks define levels? provenance
Illusions
Illusions of understanding.
Illusions
Illusions.
- What does research say about illusions of understanding and how to detect them, with attribution? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Develop Learning and teaching.
Practice.
Learning
Building understanding.
Learning
Learning.
- How is understanding built through instruction and practice, according to research? provenance
- Which entry fits learning theory? action
Teaching
Teaching for understanding.
Teaching
Teaching.
- What teaching approaches target understanding rather than recall? provenance
- Which entry fits pedagogy? action
Theory Philosophy and society.
Attribution.
Philosophy
Philosophical accounts.
Philosophy
Philosophy.
- How do philosophers analyse understanding as an epistemic state, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Mutual
Mutual understanding.
Mutual
Mutual.
- What is mutual understanding between people, and how is it studied? provenance
- Which entry fits interpersonal communication? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should reading comprehension be a separate entry?
- How should assessment frameworks be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases for policy insight and secondary reference; should they be split off?