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Meaning Making inside and outside the Academic Arena: Investigating the Contextuality of Epistemological Development in College Students
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth – Journal of General Education, 2007
By investigating undergraduates' epistemological orientations and processes in academic and personal contexts, this study examined whether and how epistemological development in one context is related to development in another context. The focus of this particular study was on tension regarding the contextuality of epistemological development. The…
Descriptors: Epistemology, College Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping
Motivational Orientations, Views about the Purpose of Education, and Intellectual Styles.
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Kroll, Mark D. – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Examined college students' motivational orientations toward learning and views concerning purpose of education in relation to various intellectual styles. Task orientation was positively associated with Tolerance for Ambiguity, Thoughtfulness, and Open-Mindedness. Ego orientation was negatively associated with Tolerance for Ambiguity,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
Differences in Japanese and United States Styles of Thinking.
Torrance, E. Paul; Sato, Saburo – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1979
Among findings were that almost twice as many Japanese students preferred the intuitive approach to solving problems, and 27 percent of Japanese students regarded themselves as more intellectual than creative compared to 49 percent of American students studied. Preference by the Japanese students for verbal modes of learning as compared to their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Creativity, Educational Research
The Validity of Kolb Learning Styles and Neo-Piagetian Developmental Levels in College Biology.
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Lawson, Anton E.; Johnson, Margaret – Studies in Higher Education, 2002
Assessed Kolb learning styles and neo-Piagetian development levels of students who then completed a lecture/lab course with either inquiry or expository instructional methods. The predicted interaction between Kolb's thinking/feeling learning dimension and instructional method was not found, while thinking/feeling dimension and developmental level…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Style, College Instruction
Teaching Formal Reasoning in a College Biology Course for Preservice Teachers.
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Lawson, Anton E.; Snitgen, Donald A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1982
Assessed the effect of a one-semester college biology course on the development of students (N=72) ability to reason formally and interactions among intelligence, cognitive style, and cognitive level. Includes implications for science instruction. (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Biology, Cognitive Style, College Science
Some Specifics in General Education.
Warren, Jonathan R. – 1979
The concept of general education, its specific goals, and its role in the college curriculum are discussed. The goals of general education appear to center around teaching students to think analytically and to synthesize ideas into a general understanding. It is suggested, however, that these objectives tend to get lost in the specifics of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Conference Reports
A Study of a Possible Relationship Between Lowenfeld's Visual-Haptic Theory and Piaget's Developmental Theory.
Butzow, John W.; Schlenker, Richard M. – 1978
This study was designed to determine the relationship between the Lowenfeldian visual-haptic (perceptual) and the Piagetian concrete-formal (operational reasoning) continua. The study also investigated the relationship between age, sex, academic goal, academic preference, and a person's perceptual aptitude or intellectual reasoning abilities.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes