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Primativo, Silvia; Reilly, Jamie; Crutch, Sebastian J – Cognitive Science, 2017
The Abstract Conceptual Feature (ACF) framework predicts that word meaning is represented within a high-dimensional semantic space bounded by weighted contributions of perceptual, affective, and encyclopedic information. The ACF, like latent semantic analysis, is amenable to distance metrics between any two words. We applied predictions of the ACF…
Descriptors: Semantics, Prediction, Abstract Reasoning, Eye Movements
Cyr, Stéphane; Charland, Patrick; Riopel, Martin; Bruyère, Marie-Hélène – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2019
Serious video games (SVGs) are increasingly used as supplementary teaching tools for mathematics education. Several studies report their positive impact on student learning. However, these impacts are variable, and the success of the tools cannot be generalized or extended to all settings or disciplines without an in-depth look at the games…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, Design, Models
Watanabe, Tad – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) (CCSSI 2010) identifies the strategic use of appropriate tools as one of the mathematical practices and emphasizes the use of pictures and diagrams as reasoning tools. Starting with the early elementary grades, CCSSM discusses students' solving of problems "by drawing." In later…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students

Arnheim, Rudolf – Educational Horizons, 1993
Visual learning enhances cognitive understanding of abstract concepts. Perception of such ideas as causality is enriched by visual examples. Perceiving should not be separated from thinking. (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Development, Comprehension

Eisner, Elliot W. – Educational Horizons, 1993
Visual learning, the capacity to construe meaning from visual images and to create meaningful visual forms, distills complex information and presents information directly. It plays an important role in development of the ability to abstract and decode. (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Coding, Cognitive Development, Sensory Integration
Guenther, R. Kim; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Reports three experiments to investigate differences in the semantic classification of pictures and words. The data suggest that visual short-term memory and semantic memory operate in semantic-decision tasks though these sources of information differ in characteristics, potential for activation, and level of abstraction. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning

Ambron, Joanna – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Speculates that the prewriting technique of "clustering" can be an effective tool for multicultural college students learning sophisticated scientific concepts. Asserts that teachers must be willing to take risks and nurture students' creativity and self-confidence if such techniques are to succeed and supplant or supplement the lecture…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Multicultural Education, Prewriting
Bruce, Susan M. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2005
Most children who are congenitally deafblind are severely delayed in their communication development and many will not achieve symbolic understanding and expression. This article discusses developmental markers cited in the research literature as predictive of or facilitative of the development of symbolism. These markers include the growth toward…
Descriptors: Symbolic Learning, Cues, Object Permanence, Communication Disorders

Klein, Jeanne – Youth Theatre Journal, 1987
Describes a study of fifth grade students' ability to process information from a play, and compares the results to related information from television research. (JC)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis

Moriarty, Sandra – Journal of Visual Literacy, 1994
Discusses several philosophies of linguistics and semiotics that debate the importance of words and their relationship to signs, language as the primary modeling system, and the historical primacy of verbal versus visual communication. Describes human communication as both language-based and nonverbal, both aspects inviting arbitrary and abstract…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Interpretive Skills, Language Processing
Weihe, Paul – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2006
Despite the central role of risk assessment in analyzing and making decisions about many environmental issues, most people are poorly equipped to understand key concepts about risk or apply them successfully. I present three class activities in which students develop a better appreciation for the magnitude of a one in a million increased risk of…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making Skills, Environmental Education, Abstract Reasoning

Robinson, Nancy M.; Abbott, Robert D.; Berninger, Virginia W.; Busse, Julie; Mukhopadhyay, Swapna – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1997
A two-year study randomly assigned children (K-grade 2) with advanced mathematical skills (n=276) to two groups, an intervention group reflecting a constructivist approach or a control. Boys gained more than girls on quantitative and visual-spatial measures in the control, whereas the intervention group made greater gains in quantitative measures…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academically Gifted, Concept Formation, Logical Thinking