Promoting Intellectual Development Through Science Teaching.

Renner, John W.; Lawson, Anton E.

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Promoting Intellectual Development Through Science Teaching

Renner, John W.; Lawson, Anton E.

Physics Teacher, 11, 5, 273-276, May 73

Presents the results of two Piagetian conservation tasks administered to high school students. It was found that not many were at the formal operations level. Similar evidence is presented for college students. Concludes that development of formal thought must be a focus of all teachers. (DF)

Descriptors: College Science, Educational Research, Intellectual Development, Learning, Learning Theories, Physics, Science Education, Secondary School Science

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