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Download full textAnderson, David E. – 2003
The undergraduate liberal arts program is assumed to promote sophistication in thinking. At the same time, certain levels of cognitive ability are assumed to be present in students accepted into selective undergraduate colleges. Beginning in the fall of 1991, a long-term research study was undertaken at a small residential liberal arts college…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Formal Operations
