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Balta, Nuri; Eryilmaz, Ali – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
One way to fascinate, engage, arouse curiosity, motivate, and stimulate intellectual development in learning scientific concepts is to use counterintuitive questions. These questions make students aware of the inadequacies of their own thinking by exposing them to situations whose outcomes are inconsistent with what they would expect. In this…
Descriptors: Intuition, Learner Engagement, Intellectual Development, Measures (Individuals)
Robinson, W. P.; Rackstraw, Susan J. – 1975
This paper describes the development of children's ability to pose and answer questions and discusses the teacher's role in enhancing these problem-solving skills. Several chapters review theoretical and empirical work related to these issues: models of man, general intellectual development, the mother's role in children's intellectual development…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Research, Communication Skills, Elementary Education
Robinson, W. P., Ed. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
Reviews research about child development, curiosity, questioning, boredom, and social class differences, and the relationships between attitudes and capacities of the learners and the content and complexities of the materials. (See TM 504 595 for availability). (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Failure, Apathy, Aptitude Treatment Interaction