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Shtulman, Andrew; Young, Andrew G. – Child Development Perspectives, 2023
What do cows drink? The correct answer is water, but many are tempted to say milk. The disposition to override an intuitive response (milk) with a more analytic response (water) is known as "cognitive reflection." Tests of cognitive reflection predict a wide range of skills and abilities in adults. In this article, we discuss the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Thinking Skills, Prediction
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Acar, Ömer; Azakli, Zeynep – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
The effect of online argumentation and reflective thinking-based science teaching on sixth-grade students' epistemic cognition, metacognition, and logical thinking was explored in this study. The research was carried out in the 2020-2021 academic year when all teaching was online due to COVID-19. Students in the study sample were mostly from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Computer Mediated Communication, Persuasive Discourse
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van Aswegen, Suzanne; Swart, Estelle; Oswald, Marietjie M. – South African Journal of Education, 2019
Being aware of our thinking as we perform learning tasks and then using this knowledge to actively self-regulate what we are doing, is commonly known as metacognition. This study investigated the influence of a story-based intervention on the development of metacognition among Intermediate Phase learners engaged in content area learning. Two…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Story Telling, Public Schools, Elementary School Students
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Colcott, Dawn; Russell, Bernadette; Skouteris, Helen – Teacher Development, 2009
This article reports on the collaborative initiative of two primary school teachers who created and implemented innovative pedagogy in order to foster a culture of thinking in their classrooms. The paper outlines teaching strategies that were used with the intent of making students mindful of themselves as learners and thinkers. A…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Dong, Ting; Anderson, Richard C.; Kim, Il-Hee; Li, Yuan – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
Students at two sites in China and one site in Korea engaged in Collaborative Reasoning, an approach to discussion that requires self-management, free participation, and critical thinking. The discontinuity between the usual adult-dominated discourse of Chinese and Korean homes and classrooms and the expected discourse of Collaborative Reasoning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis