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Lin, Marcia C.; Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Rafferty, Anna; Vitale, Jonathan M. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Citizens need the capability to conduct their own inquiry projects so that they can make sense of claims about new energy policies, health remedies, or financial opportunities. To develop the lifelong capability to grapple with these dilemmas, we report on ways to design precollege units that engage students in realistic, personally relevant…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Inquiry, Learning Strategies, Constructivism (Learning)
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Rapp, Brenda; Miozzo, Michele – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
The papers in this special issue of "Language and Cognitive Processing" on the neural bases of language production illustrate two general approaches in current cognitive neuroscience. One approach focuses on investigating cognitive issues, making use of the logic of associations/dissociations or the logic of neural markers as key investigative…
Descriptors: Speech, Sign Language, Logical Thinking, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Jonsson, Martin L.; Hampton, James A. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
If people believe that some property is true of all members of a class such as sofas, then they should also believe that the same property is true of all members of a conjunctively defined subset of that class such as uncomfortable handmade sofas. A series of experiments demonstrated a failure to observe this constraint, leading to what is termed…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Concept Formation, Form Classes (Languages)
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Pea, Roy D. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Investigates in an experimental setting the claim that young children have some knowledge of the rules of correspondence between language and reality which are central to propositional logic. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Zemmels, Elizabeth – 1982
An ongoing, interdisciplinary reading program for students in grades 7-10 in Perris Union High School District (California) is described. Initiated in 1979 as a result of low reading scores, the program divides all incoming seventh grade students into homogeneous groups. In the first 6 weeks of school these new groups meet once a day for 50…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools, Language Processing
Teppo, Anne R.; Esty, Warren W.; Kirkpatrick, Kay – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Undergraduate students' written exams were analyzed from a freshman-level mathematics course that emphasized, among other topics, the study of mathematical logic. Findings indicate that on questions related to the negation of a conditional sentence, students performed much better when given natural-language contexts than they did on questions…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Logical Thinking, Mathematical Logic, Courses
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Woods, Donald R. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1989
Reviews a monograph which addresses children's higher-order thinking skills. Suggests the following for teaching problem solving: identify and develop content-independent and content-dependent problem-solving skills, connect developed skills through workshop-style activities to subject discipline, and help students identify and reconstruct their…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures