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Graulich, Nicole – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Organic chemistry education is one of the youngest research areas among all chemistry related research efforts, and its published scholarly work has become vibrant and diverse over the last 15 years. Research on problem-solving behavior, students' use of the arrow-pushing formalism, the investigation of students' conceptual knowledge and…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Problem Solving
Kravtsov, Genady G.; Kravtsova, Elena E. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
The "Golden Key" programme is a preschool education programme that is constructed on the basis of Vygotskij's cultural-historical theory. One of the most important aspects of this theory is not just the unity of intellect and affect, but the fact that the relationship between these two changes during the course of development. In infants, affect…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Physical Health, Spatial Ability, Logical Thinking
Nardini, Marko; Thomas, Rhiannon L.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Braddick, Oliver J.; Atkinson, Janette – Cognition, 2009
Reorientation tasks, in which disoriented participants attempt to relocate objects using different visual cues, have previously been understood to depend on representing aspects of the global organisation of the space, for example its major axis for judgements based on geometry. Careful analysis of the visual information available for these tasks…
Descriptors: Cues, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis, Inferences
Meyer, M. L.; Salimpoor, V. N.; Wu, S. S.; Geary, D. C.; Menon, V. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The contribution of the three core components of working memory (WM) to the development of mathematical skills in young children is poorly understood. The relation between specific WM components and Numerical Operations, which emphasize computation and fact retrieval, and Mathematical Reasoning, which emphasizes verbal problem solving abilities in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Short Term Memory, Mathematics Skills, Grade 3
Desoete, Annemie – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2009
A majority of studies on learning disabilities have focused on elementary grades. Although problems with learning disabilities are life-affecting only a few studies focus on deficits in adults. In this study adults with isolated mathematical disabilities (n = 101) and adults with combined mathematical and reading disabilities (n = 130) solved…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Adults, Reading Difficulties
Bedford, Felice L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
It has become increasingly common for theories to rely on a constraint that 1 object cannot be in more than 1 place at the same time. Analysis suggests that a 1 object--1 place--1 time constraint as literally stated is false, that a modified constraint is biased toward the visual modality, that it may not be a correct description of the physical…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes

Bigelow, A. E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
Comparison of 2 totally blind, 2 visually impaired, and 9 normally sighted children (ages 5-8) on tasks of visual perspective taking found that the totally blind children were older than the other children when they mastered the tasks, made the highest percentage of errors before mastery, and made different errors. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Cognitive Development, Partial Vision, Problem Solving

McCormick, Rodney V.; Mouw, John T. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1983
Explains Piaget's concepts of "subject-object" and "subsystem" interactions in problem solving and describes a test that substantiates Piaget's hypothesis and points to antecedent conditions that appear to stimulate imaginal structures. (SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Imagery

Cornell, Edward H.; Heth, C. Donald – Child Development, 1986
Examines the ability of six- and eight-year-old children to hide and recover 20 marbles in a large room containing 100 possible sites. Shows that children tend to concentrate activities in sections of the room and are sensitive to clusters of proximal sites. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development

Johnston, Judith R.; Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
Ten language impaired and 10 language normal children, aged 3-5), were asked to solve verbal and nonverbal problems requiring color and size judgments. There were no group differences on the verbal tasks, but the language impaired children performed less well on the nonverbal tasks especially on problems dealing with size. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Handicaps, Nonverbal Learning

Lohaus, Arnold; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Discusses variables related to task performance in the solution of the water-level problem, where subjects were asked to indicate the water surface orientation in a tilted vessel. Subjects ages 7 to 15 years participated. Suggests that field effects and the kind of rules in use contribute to the differences in performance, which can be shown even…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Context Effect
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1982
The document opens with an editorial comment discussing the role of mathematics in teaching and learning. Then, 13 reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Three of the reports deal with problem solving, and another three look at aspects of cognitive development. There are two each on mathematics instruction,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Murphy, Catherine M.; Wood, David J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Using information contained in nine photographs, young children constructed a wooden pyramid. Control children were given the same task but no pictorial information. Children's performances were significantly better when pictorial information was available. Sex and age differences were noted regarding strategies used to complete the task.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level

Landau, Barbara; And Others – Science, 1981
Reports that a congenitally blind child, as well as sighted but blindfolded children and adults, can determine the appropriate path between two objects after traveling to each of those objects from a third object. Explores relationships of finding to geometric principles underlyinq innate spatial knowledge and inferential ability. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Blindness, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Geometry
Lindvall, C. Mauritz; Ibarra, Cheryl Gibbons – 1980
This investigation used a clinical interview technique to identify the difficulties of kindergarten children who are unable to develop models or representations of simple arithmetic story problems. It is hypothesized that effective human problem solvers first generate some type of "physical model" and use this model to create a…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Cognitive Development