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Non-Humean Indices of Causation in Problem-Solving Situations: Causal Mechanism, Analogous Effects, and the Status of Rival Alternative Accounts.
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Koslowski, Barbara; Okagaki, Lynn – Child Development, 1986
According to Humean framework, relations are judged to be causal to extent that they are characterized by regularity, continuity, and covariation among college students and college-bound 11- and 14-year-olds. Presents subjects with information about one of the following indices: potential causal factor covaried with effect and potential causal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Children's Learning and Transfer of Inductive Reasoning Rules: Studies of Proximal Development.
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Ferrara, Roberta A.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Two studies examined the relation between current developmental levels, as estimated by IQ, and proximal levels of development, as estimated by the efficiency of learning and transfer in assisted contexts. Subjects were 8- to ll-year-old children. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
The Monitoring of School Mathematics: Background Papers. Volume 2: Implications From Psychology; Outcomes of Instruction. Program Report 87-2.
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Romberg, Thomas A., Ed.; Stewart, Deborah M., Ed. – 1987
This document is the second of three related volumes. They present the rationale, background, and framework for a comprehensive monitoring system being developed for the National Science Foundation. The system is being designed to gather information about the effects of national, state, and local policy actions designed to change the teaching and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attitude Measures, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment