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Costa, Arthur L. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1987
Educators must provide conditions which encourage the practice and demonstration of intelligent behaviors. Twelve characteristics of intelligent behavior are discussed, such as persistence, decreasing impulsivity, listening to others, metacognition, questioning and problem posing, etc. A summary of the school conditions in which intelligent…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education

Perkins, D. N. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Sifts through confusing intelligence theories, arguing that intelligence is a combination of influences involving power, tactics, and content. Good thinking is an unnatural act demanding evenhanded reasoning, problem finding (versus solving), and knowledge as invention. Discusses thinking frames guiding thought processes and the implications for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Intelligence

Ennis, Robert H. – Review of Educational Research, 1975
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Link, Frances R., Ed. – 1985
There has been a flood of publications concerned with the teaching of thinking and problem solving, a great many exploring definitions and approaches to instruction. This book explores the implications of recent theoretical positions as in the work of Elliott Jaques, Joseph Walters, and Howard Gardner; examines the long interest and study of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development

Bliss, Joan – Physics Education, 1978
Describes children's reactions to chance and probability in a variety of experimental situations, using four different experiments from Piaget's work, to give a clearer picture of how children approach these ideas. (GA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiments

Meehan, Eugene J. – Gifted International, 1987
The article presents a generalized program for improving critical judgment and facilitating intellectual progress in gifted students. It examines the development of a critical base of knowledge, generalizing past experience into a theoretical base, and applying a theory of knowledge in education. Examples from adult and elementary programs are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
Sorgman, Margo – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1986
Reviews the research and writing of several authors who advocated intellectual reflectivity as either a major goal or method of social studies. Analyzes the practical constraints which tended to prevent schools and teachers from adopting reflectivty and makes recommendations for increasing teachers' acceptance of reflectivity. (JDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education

Galyean, Beverly-Colleene – Futurist, 1983
The human brain is capable of mastering skills far beyond those it is now used for. Three questions about the further evolution of human intelligence are raised: What will be the next step in human intelligence? How is the next step manifesting itself? How can we prepare for those changes? (IS)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
Collis, Kevin F. – 1977
In earlier research the writer was constrained by the variables which were continuously appearing in both experimental class teaching experiences and various psychological experiments to distinguish four levels of cognitive sophistication in so far as mathematical material was concerned between the ages of 7 years and 17 years. In current research…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation

Steig, Janet B. – Reading World, 1979
Provides a literature review of research done in recent years to identify comprehension processes within the reader. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education

Folsom, Christy – Roeper Review, 1998
Addresses the importance of integrating the intellectual and moral education of gifted students. A framework synthesized from the works of Dewey and Guilford explicates basic structural components of the intellectual and moral dimensions of development. Suggestions for facilitating complex learning through complex teaching and the complex…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Thomas, John W. – 1972
A model for the development of elementary and secondary instructional materials covering the broad range of intellectual skills is presented. The document is a result of a search to identify and evaluate existing instructional materials, classification schemes, models, hierarchies, and taxonomies of cognition. It is presented in four sections.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Valiant, Bob – 1996
Developments in the field of brain research that focus on how humans learn is beginning to influence the way schools are being built and renovated. This report discusses how the brain learns, explores how this knowledge can be used to inform learning theory, and describes what instruction would be like in a brain-based learning environment as well…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning
Walsh, Debbie; Paul, Richard W. – 1986
This monograph examines the issues surrounding the educational movement toward emphasizing critical thinking in our schools. The emergence of the critical thinking movement in education in today's schools is discussed in the light of the historical role of schools in our society and the developing complexity of educational needs. The concept of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Olkinuora, 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