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Normandeau, Sylvie; Arsenault, Julie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Examined the effect of mothers' familiarity with a formal operations task on performance and monitoring of a cognitive task with their children and on the child's later performance alone. The task-familiar mothers elicted higher level strategies during problem solving and allowed their children to participate more than did the other mothers; their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations
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Cote, Camille; Leide, John E. – Adolescence, 1989
Examined high school students' scores on test of formal thinking and those on test of reading. Students' success on both tests was disappointingly low. Lack of motivation appeared to be major problem. Correlations between scores on two tests were relatively low, although there was suggestive similarity between distribution of scores for formal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Ferguson, Nicole; Vazquez-Abad, Jesus – 1996
This paper describes part of a study undertaken to examine the relationship between dispositions to critical thinking, procedural knowledge in science, and formal reasoning. Three tests were administered to 346 grade 7 students at the beginning and at the end of the school year: California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory, Group Assessment…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations, Junior High School Students