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Bester, Garfield; Kuyper, Nadine – Africa Education Review, 2020
Resilience can be viewed as successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances (e.g. poverty). This article reports on an investigation of which the primary aim was to establish how additional educational support enhances adolescents' resilience and academic performance. A quantitative approach was followed using two schools.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Middle Class
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Jiang, Bo; Xu, Xiaoying; Garcia, Alicia; Lewis, Jennifer E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
The Test of Logical Thinking (TOLT) and the Group Assessment of Logical Thinking (GALT) are two of the instruments most widely used by science educators and researchers to measure students' formal reasoning abilities. Based on Piaget's cognitive development theory, formal thinking ability has been shown to be essential for student achievement in…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Reliability, Chemistry, Logical Thinking