@article {343,
	title = {EXAMINING THE STRUCTURES OF STUDENTS{\textquoteright} CONCEPTS USING REPERTORY GRID ANALYSIS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {18},
	year = {2009},
	month = {December/2009},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {102-114},
	abstract = {This work attempts to explore the methodological legacy of George Kelly {\textendash} repertory grid analysis {\textendash} as an aid to visually mapping the structures of students{\textquoteright} concepts. Although, Kelly formulated a complex Euclidian framework of psychological laws, axioms, and corollaries, we have concentrated on the methods that later workers took from Kelly{\textquoteright}s original {\textquoteleft}RepGrid Test{\textquoteright}. The central entity is a self-constructed concept, or set thereof, that may be represented in a matrix. As a matrix of integers can be manipulated by a large variety of statistical protocols, we explore in three studies how such matrices may be derived in relation to students{\textquoteleft} concepts of living kinds, and then how they may be analysed. Typcially, we use principal components analysis {\textendash} a model-free form of factor analysis. The resultant loadings derived from these analyses are plotted on Cartesian planes from which additional information about the structure of the students{\textquoteright} conceptualizations may be derived.},
	keywords = {repertory grid analysis, thoughts},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1399916153.pdf},
	author = {Thomas  J.J. McCloughlin and Philip  S.C. Matthews}
}
