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Wavering, Michael J.; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1986
Performance on five logical, spatial, and formal tasks was used to make inferences about the reasoning structures of 101 middle and high school students. Findings (obtained during interviews) include grade level differences in performance and sex differences in performance on one of the tasks. Implications for instruction are proposed. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Science, Intermediate Grades
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Maag, John W.; And Others – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
This study examined differences in reported depressive symptomatology and related dysfunctional cognitions in nonhandicapped, learning-disabled, and seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents from both public school and juvenile correction settings. No significant main effect was found for differences across label, but consequential differences…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
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Stangor, Charles; Ruble, Diane N. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Examines research which suggests that children's developing knowledge about traditional gender roles has a substantial influence on how children process information pertaining to gender. Evidence also shows that as children attain gender constancy, their behaviors become especially responsive to gender-related information. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Development
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Signorella, Margaret L. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Supports the position that although individual differences have often been ignored, children do differ in the stereotyping of their gender identities and attitudes (gender schemata). Stresses that children with traditionally stereotyped gender schemata process information about gender differently from children who have less stereotyped schemata.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
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Feiring, Candice; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1996
This article presents a theoretical and testable model of psychological processes in child and adolescent victims of sexual abuse. It proposes that sexual abuse leads to shame through mediation of cognitive attributions which leads to poor adjustment. Three factors--social support, gender, and developmental period--are hypothesized to moderate the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Child Abuse, Children
O'Donnell, William J.; Endsley, Glenn J. – 1986
This study focuses on the possible relationships between cognitive preference scores of algebra students and level of algebra, sex, and performance rank in algebra classes. The sample consisted of 162 students from a high school in the Denver area. The instruments used were the Cognitive Preference Test: Mathematics (Revised) (CPTM) and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Algebra, Cognitive Structures
Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – 1987
Sex differences on Perry's stages of epistemological development were investigated in a study of 100 freshmen (50 men and 50 women) at a large midwestern university. A semi-structured interview probed six domains related to Perry's theory, including the role of the learner, instructor, and peers in the learning situation, the question of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style
Tobin, Kenneth, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This book is the result of the accumulated research of five researchers from the United States and Australia on a school in Coastal Australia. The research team shared a constructivist epistemology and interpreted the qualitative and quantitative data collected over a 10-week period in two classrooms from that perspective. Each chapter discusses…
Descriptors: Biology, Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
Entwisle, Doris R.; Alexander, Karl L. – 1989
This paper uses a structural model with a large random sample of urban children to explain children's competence in math concepts and computation at the time they begin first grade. These two aspects of math ability respond differently to environmental resources, with math concepts much more responsive to family factors before formal schooling…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Mathematics, Family Influence
Levine, Gavrielle – 1992
In general, studies investigating sex differences in mathematics performance have empirically analyzed students' responses from standardized tests. This paper reports a study to extend the investigation of sex differences related to mathematics performance by examining cognitive and motivational factors as well as standardized test scores. Boys…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Structures, Computation, Elementary Education