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Keating, Daniel P. – 1988
The goal of this research synthesis is to evaluate the validity of the claim that there are fundamental limitations on the ability of adolescents to engage in critical thinking. Critical thinking is defined as an analytic, focused cognitive activity aimed at understanding phenomena at a root rather than a superficial level; a type of thinking…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Darmody, John P. – Adolescence, 1991
Examined relationship between levels of Piagetian formal reasoning ability and values preferences derived from Rokeach Value Survey. Findings from 448 secondary school students revealed that subjects with high scores on formal reasoning ranked terminal values representing abstract notions with long-term implications higher than those focusing on…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations
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Boyes, Michael C.; Chandler, Michael – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1992
To evaluate the part that nascent skeptical doubt plays in shaping adolescent social-cognitive development, 61 high school students clearly classified as in concrete or formal operational stages of cognitive development completed a measure of epistemic stances. A relationship was found between cognitive and epistemic development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
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Wagner, Janis A. – Adolescence, 1987
Investigated the relationship between the development of formal operations and the formation of ego identity in adolescence. Obtained significant positive correlations between combinatorial ability and degree of identity, suggesting that high identity may facilitate the application of combinatorial operations. Found some gender differences in task…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Seng, Seok Hoon; Charles, Belinda – 1994
A common concern raised by teachers from secondary schools and junior colleges in Singapore is the apparent inability or reluctance of adolescents to think critically and originally. Adolescent thought processes are probably shaped by the change in intellectual pace and quality between the primary and secondary school curriculum. This study of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences