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Download full textOlkinuora, Erkki – 1984
Although many researchers have identified meaningful learning as the proper aim of education, the realization of that aim and the theoretical understanding of the prerequisites for meaningful learning in the school setting are far from complete. By integrating ideas from theories of meaningful learning with ideas from theories of purposeful,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
Downey, John A. – 2002
Various student development theorists have postulated that the collegiate experience is a strong contributor toward cognitive development in college students. This essay examines Kitchener and King's (1981, 1985) reflective judgment model of cognitive development as both a metacognitive exercise and as a particular skill. The development of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, College Transfer Students
Stuessy, Carol Liebe – 1984
A model for the development of scientific reasoning in adolescents was formulated largely upon the basis of Piagetian theory. Included as potential determinants of scientific reasoning were experience, age, locus of control, field independence-dependence (FID), rigidity/flexibility, intelligence quotient (IQ), and sex. Causal relationships between…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age, Cognitive Processes
