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Download full textWorden, Patricia E.; Mandler, George – 1976
Mandler (1969) found that one-third of adult subjects were seriators and two-thirds were categorizers in a task where either strategy could be employed. Study 1 was a replication of his procedure with children from Grades 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. While there was weak evidence that some older subjects chose the categorial strategy, there was little…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Colwell, Dhamma – 2001
This paper describes a case study in which one woman in a focus group of 11 women recounted her use of numerical and mathematical tools in her personal and work life. According to the researcher, the subject's experiences engendered strong feelings and revealed that aspects of her self-identity were bound up with her use of tools and feelings…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Arithmetic, Case Studies, Cognitive Style
