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Cameron, Roy – Child Development, 1984
Relates the problem-solving behavior of second, fourth, and sixth graders to conceptual tempo. Correlations with indices of strategic and efficient performance on a pattern-matching task confirmed that reflectives are more strategic than impulsives. A task-analysis identified the sources of inefficiency for each child and related these sources to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo
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Wilkinson, William K.; Maxwell, Susanna – Research in Higher Education, 1991
Twenty-two college students from each of three different epistemological groups--dualistic, multiplistic, and relativistic--completed both a syllogism and ink blot problem-solving task. Findings indicated that the three epistemological groups reliably differed in how they mentally organized the ink blot stimuli but not the syllogism problems.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Epistemology
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Goldstein, Felicia G.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Administered The Matching Familiar Figures Test to 45 seven- and eight-year-olds to assess the relationship between cognitive style and temperamental variables such as distractibility, persistence, and mood. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
Sleeman, Derek H. – AEDS Monitor, 1985
Reports results obtained when 24 14-year-old students were presented with algebra tasks by a computer-based modeling system and, four months later, comparable paper and pencil tests together with detailed interviews. Comparison of the results revealed profound misunderstandings of algebraic notation and identified classes of strategies used by…
Descriptors: Algebra, Algorithms, Cognitive Style, Diagnostic Teaching
Clement, John – 1987
Evidence from video tapes of experts thinking aloud and using analogies in scientific problem solving is presented. Four processes appear to be important in using an analogy: (1) generating the analogy; (2) establishing confidence in the validity of the analogy relation; (3) understanding the analogous case; and (4) applying findings to the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, College Science
Worthley, Karin Marie Evenson – 1987
This research examined the learning style factor of field dependence/independence and the problem solving strategies of Hmong male refugee students 17 years old and older who were attending or planning to attend post secondary education institutions in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The research was conducted from July 1986 to July 1987 to test two…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence
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Flexer, Roberta J. – Elementary School Journal, 1987
Documents the different problem-solving styles and approaches of two first-grade children having strong mathematical abilities. One child demonstrated an extrinsic, algorithmic style of problem-solving, while the other used an intrinsic, individual-in-control style. (NH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Perkins, D. N.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
Examines reasons why some elementary and secondary students learn programming in BASIC and LOGO much better than others suggesting this happens because students bring different learning patterns to the programming context. Pitfalls novices face in learning programming are discussed, and instructional design suggestions to foster better learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Improvement
Fosnot, Catherine Twomey; Forman, George E. – 1985
This two-part study began with a replication, statistical validation, and extension of the Karmiloff-Smith and Inhelder study of children's construction of theories about balance. The 128 subjects (ages 4 to 6) were videotaped as they tried to balance blocks on a fulcrum. A scale was developed to assess the degree to which the child's performance…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages
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Hill, Douglas M.; Redden, Michael G. – School Science and Mathematics, 1984
Seventy fifth-grade students in Australia were observed as each solved a jigsaw puzzle. Boys obtained higher scores on a measure of cognitive style and took less time to complete the jigsaw task; the two measures were significantly correlated. Uses of tangrams are also discussed. (MNS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Steinberg, Esther R.; And Others – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1985
Describes investigation of effectiveness of computer-presented organizational/memory aids (matrix and verbal charts controlled by computer or learner) as instructional technique for solving Pico-Fomi problems, and the acquisition of deductive inference rules when such aids are present. Results indicate chart use control should be adapted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charts, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Allwood, Carl Martin – Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Language, 1984
Describes a study which analyzed problem solvers' error detection processes by instructing subjects to think aloud when solving statistical problems. Effects of evaluative episodes on error detection, detection of different error types, error detection processes per se, and relationship of error detection behavior to problem-solving proficiency…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Style, Correlation, Error Patterns
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Davis, Gary; Pepper, Kristine – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Provides new evidence for mathematical problem-solving abilities of preschool children. These problem-solving behaviors occurred in a study of sharing of discrete items by dealing, in which we examined the abilities of three categories of counters to solve a discrete redistribution problem. Identifies problem-solving strategies used in the context…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Early Experience, Interviews
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Rush, G. Michael; Moore, David M. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Presents study results suggesting some malleability in learning strategies that flow from cognitive style. Examines the effects and practicability of restructuring training as a means of addressing individual learner differences. Reports that training enhanced performance on two dependent measures tasks. Concludes that field-dependent learners…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
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Garrett, Roger M. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1989
Reviewed are 15 studies on cognitive style and problem solving in science education. The effects of problem context, problem type, and three kinds of cognitive style on subjects' abilities to encounter and solve problems are investigated. Three protocols of the subjects' encountering activities are provided. (YP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence, Foreign Countries, Physics
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