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Peer reviewedOnocha, C. O.; Okpala, P. N. – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1987
This study investigated the formal reasoning ability and the relationship between reasoning ability, sex, and age of 600 preservice primary teachers in Nigeria. Findings are summarized. (MT)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Education Majors, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Download full textAdey, Phillip; Shayer, Michael – 1988
In an attempt to accelerate the development of formal operations in average young adolescents, up to 30 intervention lessons relating to all formal schemata were given by science teachers, over a period of 2 years, to classes in eight British schools. Boys starting the program aged 12 years-plus showed a pre-test, post-test effect size on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
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
