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Peer reviewedLinn, Marcia C. – Science Education, 1977
Four tasks which are frequently used to evaluate adolescent reasoning skill: (1) the pendulum task; (2) the ramp problem; (3) the cart experiment; and (4) the invisible magnetism experiment are analyzed to determine the Piagetian concepts that each measures. (CP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Educational Research
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E. – Science Education, 1982
Many science curriculum development projects have the goal of increasing students' ability to employ scientific or formal reasoning strategies. Argues that longitudinal data of students who acquired formal reasoning strategies as a consequence of specific instruction are needed to provide evidence that these skills will help in other academic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Peer reviewedLowell, Walter E. – Science Education, 1979
Analyzes the meaning of Piaget's concept of abstraction and provides discussion of some of its shortcomings. (HM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedNovak, Joseph D. – Science Education, 1977
Cites research findings to refute Piaget's contention of stages of cognitive development. Advocates continuous cognitive differentiation as a model. (CP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedWollman, Warren – Science Education, 1977
Defines five levels between concrete and formal operation in the development of the concept of controlling variables. The sample, methodology and research on which the work is based is described in SE 519 500. (CP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedPreece, Peter F. W. – Science Education, 1978
Discusses the nature of the internal representation of cognitive structure, the methodological problems involved in mapping it, and the proposed kinds of "maps." Reviews research on the organization of scientific concepts in semantic memory. (GA)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
Peer reviewedDe Carcer, Inigo Aguirre; And Others – Science Education, 1978
Examines science education research studies concerned with the development of formal thinking in adolescents according to Piagetian theory. (Author/GA)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedLogan, Richard D.; O'Hearn, George T. – Science Education, 1982
Examines changes in the broad cultural background which provide the context for thinking, and how such life-style changes may have influenced the decline of reasoning skills and styles fundamental to the sciences. Considers peasant/rural farming, new world, and postaffluent society life-styles and science education in the latter. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, College Science
Peer reviewedCarlson, Gaylen R.; Streitberger, Eric – Science Education, 1983
Compared formal reasoning responses of seventh-and eighth-grade students on three tests of formal reasoning. The three tests differ only in the mode of equipment presentation on identical test items and problems. Tests included three-dimension demonstration (Lawson), two-dimension showing drawings of materials used in three-dimensional test, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
