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Download full textBoram, Robert D.; Renner, John W. – 1985
Students (N=49) enrolled in a physics course for elementary teachers were evaluated for their abilities to use: (1) combinatorial logic; (2) separation and control of variables; (3) proportional reasoning; and (4) reciprocal implications. Performance of four Piagetian tasks during interviews was treated as a measure of the degree to which students…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Science
Stuessy, Carol L. – 1985
A model for the development of scientific reasoning in adolescents was formulated largely upon the basis of Piagetian theory. Included as potential determinants of scientific reasoning were: experience; age; locus of control; field dependence-independence (FID); rigidity/flexibility; intelligence quotient (IQ); and sex. Causal relationships…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedColangelo, Nicholas; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This study reports the characteristics of the 4,751 high school students (out of 374,527) who achieved perfect scores in 1 or more subtests of the 1991 PLAN academic performance test, an academic assessment of 10th graders. Comparisons by gender, ethnicity, and subtest (English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science Reasoning) and a profile of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests
