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Peer reviewedCollings, J. N. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1994
Demonstrates that 11-year-old children's scientific thinking in formal operational terms can be significantly developed through training in the cognitive style of field independence determined by the Group Embedded Figures Test. Suggests students could perform formal operationally if they had the skill of identifying the variables to be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Field Dependence Independence, Formal Operations, Grade 5
