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Calderón-Tena, Carlos O. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
This study investigated the role of broad cognitive processes in the development of mathematics skills among children and adolescents. Four hundred and forty-seven students (age mean [M] = 10.23 years, 73% boys and 27% girls) from an elementary school district in the US southwest participated. Structural equation modelling tests indicated that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
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Tanner, David E. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1988
A multiple-choice achievement test was constructed in which both cognitive level and degree of abstractness were controlled in test items. By controlling both dimensions, researchers hoped that the variance in achievement scores of earlier research could be accounted for. Results of testing education majors are discussed. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Education Majors