%0 Journal Article %T El contenido epist¨¦mico de dos tipos de estudios universitarios y el tama£¿o de la clase en relaci¨®n con variables objetivas: un an¨¢lisis desde la perspectiva de la cognici¨®n distribuida %A Dominino %A Mart¨ªn %A Castellaro %A Mariano Andr¨¦s %A Roselli %A N¨¦stor %J Revista mexicana de investigaci¨®n educativa %D 2011 %I Consejo Mexicano de Investigaci¨®n Educativa, A.C. %X this research analyzes type of epistemic content and class size (contextual variables) in relation to the objective configuration of distributed cognition systems: physical/ communicating and symbolic/implementing (variables relative to carrying out the activity). the variables studied within the physical/communicating system were the basic classroom setting, the teacher's spatial behavior, students' mobility in the classroom, and students' oral participation. the symbolic/implementing system consisted of guides, bibliographical texts, and note-taking. the sample was non-probabilistic, intentional, and included 28 university classes pertaining to three majors in the social sciences and three majors in the exact sciences. the results indicated, through multivariate and bivariate analysis, highly-significant associations between the mentioned variables. %K educational research %K public universities %K social sciences %K natural sciences %K argentina. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-66662011000200013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en