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Peer reviewedLinn, Marcia C.; Swiney, John F., Jr. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
To investigate the role expectation based rules governing formal reasoning performance, a battery of group and individual aptitude measures and formal reasoning tests were administered to 17-year-olds. Individual differences in usage of these rules were clarified by establishing an overlap between an aptitude model and formal reasoning.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Expectation
Peer reviewedEgan, Dennis E.; Greeno, James G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Several skills important to successful learning by discovery were found to be less essential to successful learning by rule. Results also supported the hypothesis that the outcome of discovery is the structural integration of previously known concepts, while the outcome of rule learning is the addition of new structure. (Authors)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Concept Teaching, Data Analysis, Discovery Learning
Peer reviewedReed, Stephen K.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
Eighty-six college students studied solutions of simple and complex word problems and then used the examples to construct algebraic equations as the frequency of referral to example was recorded. Students did not always select the appropriate example, and ability to select appropriately did not interact with aptitude. (SLD)
Descriptors: Algebra, Aptitude, College Students, Equations (Mathematics)
Peer reviewedShavelson, Richard J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Aptitude, Incidental Learning, Individual Differences, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedTobias, Sigmund – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Results suggest that familiarity may be a useful variable in Attribute X Treatment interaction research. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Aptitude, Linear Programing, Multiple Regression Analysis
Peer reviewedMcInerney, Valentina; McInerney, Dennis M.; Marsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1997
Two aptitude-treatment interaction studies involving 61 college students examined comparative effects of metacognitive strategy training in self-questioning within cooperative group learning and traditional direct instruction on the acquisition of computing competence, learning anxiety, and positive cognition. Results support including cooperative…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude, College Students, Competence
Peer reviewedHall, Vernon C.; Edmondson, Beverly – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Results for 78 college students who took a pretest on basketball knowledge, read a passage on basketball, and took an immediate or delayed posttest indicate that pretest scores are significantly related to immediate posttest scores, whereas delayed posttest scores are related to Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal scores. (SLD)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Basketball, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Peer reviewedSchneider, Wolfgang; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
Two studies with 170 third-, 303 fifth-, and 288 seventh-graders in Heidelberg (West Germany) compared memory performance and text comprehension of groups equivalent on domain-specific knowledge of the game of soccer but differing in overall aptitude. Whether prior knowledge or overall aptitude level was more important in acquiring/using new…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
