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Peer reviewedHale, James P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1976
A sample of 108 eight-grade students using Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) were tested with four Piagetian tasks: two tasks were related to ISCS concepts, two were not. Concludes that no students were formal operational, most were concrete operational, and most performed better on the non-ISCS related tasks. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Educational Research, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedGraybill, Letitia – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1975
Studied was the performance of four Piagetian tests for formal reasoning by students between the ages of 9 and 15. Concluded that boys performed better than girls. (MLH)
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Educational Research, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedTreagust, David F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1980
Explored was the relationship between performance and gender for junior- and senior-high students (N=108) on six Piagetian-type tasks developed to measure infralogical spatial groupings. Results indicated a significant relationship between performance and gender on four tasks, in which males outscored females. Implications for science teaching are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Educational Research, Junior High Schools
