Person-centered Approaches to Explaining Students’ Cognitive Processing Strategies

Abstract

This chapter presents a growing niche within the research on strategic processing – person-centered approaches to quantitative data analysis. First, person-centered approaches are situated within the strategic processing literature. Second, the chapter overviews person-centered approaches in its current state in the field. And, finally, the chapter makes the case that person-centered approaches can – and should – play a more central role in investigations of strategic processing.