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Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Reports a study of 922 college students that classified the students based on performance on formal operational reasoning tasks. Students were also administered seven logic tasks. Response patterns were analyzed and found to be similar to patterns derived from the multiple-hypothesis theory of advanced scientific reasoning and different from those…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Strategies, Formal Operations, Higher Education
