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Okeke, Anulika Mary; Egara, Felix Oromena; Orga, Anthonia Chioma; Nzeadibe, Augustina Chinyere – Pedagogical Research, 2023
The effect of symbolic form model on students' interest in logic content of the mathematics curriculum was investigated in this study. The research was guided by three research questions and three hypotheses. The study used a quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was 2,342 SS2 learners in Enugu State, Nigeria. A sample of 172…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum
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Hartley, Calum; Allen, Melissa L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
This research investigated whether symbolic understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with autism is mediated by iconicity and language. In Experiment 1, participants were taught novel words paired with unfamiliar pictures that varied in iconicity (black-and-white line drawings, greyscale photographs, colour line drawings, colour…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Autism, Cognitive Ability, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Oers, Bert van – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1996
An observational study investigated which teaching opportunities within a role play activity could be considered valuable for the improvement of mathematical thinking. Observations indicated many such opportunities, suggesting that if teachers manage to make use of such teaching opportunities, children can explicitly reflect on the relationship…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities
Hample, Dale – 1980
Research indicates that people have two distinct information processing modalities, one for verbal material and one for nonverbal material. The nonverbal mode is used for visual images and is characterized by creative and relatively undisciplined associations. The verbal mode deals with abstract stimuli and is restrained by logic and the need to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Thinking
Wax, Murray L.; Luhman, Reid A. – 1974
The study examined the relation of language use and logical thought to social experience with both age and class held constant. The primary assumptions under study were: that the logic of symbolic grouping was highly sensitive to a child's experience with the objects to which that logic was applied; that the existence of diglossia in a bilingual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes