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Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – Journal of College Student Development, 1988
Compared standardized versus semi-structured approach to measuring intellectual development to identify accurate methods to assess gender differences and similarities. Intellectual development was measured for 101 college freshmen using the Measure of Epistemological Reflection and a semi-structured interview. Results provide strong evidence that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Freshmen, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education

Stonewater, Barbara Bradley – Initiatives, 1989
Links the works of William Perry and of Carol Gilligan in a discussion of the need to consider differences between men and women in their patterns of intellectual development. Considers the need to examine gender differences especially as they relate to career decision making. (NB)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Decision Making, Higher Education
King, Patricia M.; Taylor, Jack A. – 1989
This study examined the intellectual development of black college students and investigated the relationship among students' intellectual development, their academic and social integration, and the noncognitive factors specified by Tracey and Sedlacek (1984). Subjects were 344 black undergraduate students at a large midwestern state university who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Students, Educational Attainment
Schmidt, Janet A. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1985
This study was designed to determine whether age or education had the greatest impact on the intellectual development of college students of traditional and nontraditional ages. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Hettich, Paul – 1997
Seldom are college students introduced to theories that describe how they and other students change intellectually during their college years. Two epistemological perspectives on cognitive development in college students and how they can be presented to students are examined in this paper. The first perspective is William Perry's forms of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Epistemology
Alishio, Kip C.; Schilling, Karen Maitland – 1983
Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development was examined for sex differences with respect to content areas for which sex differences have elsewhere been suggested: occupational choice, interpersonal relationships, and sexual identity. In addition, the content area religion and ego development, as measured by Loevinger's sentence…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Developmental Stages, Higher Education

Annis, Linda F.; Annis, David B. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
The effect of college course content on students' growth in critical thinking was investigated. Students enrolled in various philosophy courses and a non-philosophy control were pre- and post-tested for critical thinking. Only the logic course had a consistent impact on certain aspects of critical thinking. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Evaluation, Critical Thinking, Ethics

Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – Review of Higher Education, 1990
A study with 101 college freshmen indicates that freshman experience promotes increasing intellectual complexity for both sexes, but more for males than females. Analysis of student expectations and perceptions of environments shows subtle differences that may account for differential growth, suggesting some approaches to creating equitable…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences

Buczynski, Patricia L. – Journal of College Student Development, 1993
Traditional models of student development have been criticized for discriminating against developmental characteristics of women. Developed Ways-of-Knowing Instrument (WOKI) to measure concepts from Belenky et al.'s model of intellectual development. Administered WOKI to 348 female undergraduates. Found encouraging empirical support for Belenky et…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
Atkin, Eugene – 1998
This study used survey data to identify college students' dominant learning stages, basing it on Marcia Baxter Magolda's (1992) Epistemological Reflection Model. A total of 699 alumni of a midwestern community college who had completed at least 30 credit hours transferable to baccalaureate degrees elsewhere completed a survey that incorporated…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alumni, Cognitive Style, College Transfer Students
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed. – 1978
Fourteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Two of the reports concern studies funded by the National Science Foundation to provide an assessment of the status of science education; three deal with teaching methods, three with conditional reasoning, two with problem solving, two with intellectual…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Entwistle, Noel – 1977
A series of studies carried out in Aberdeen, Scotland and Lancaster England is used to illustrate changing interests in the area of personality and learning. The early studies looked for general relationships, adopting a psychometric approach. Recent work has been focused more on the process of learning, particularly in higher education, and on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Piburn, Michael D.; Baker, Dale R. – Science Education, 1989
Examines the variables that influence females' success in science by experimenting with the outcomes of measures of formal reasoning ability. Concludes that women turn away from science for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their reasoning ability. (YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Females, Formal Operations, Higher Education
Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – 1994
This study investigated the relative freshman-year cognitive impacts of five two-year and six four-year colleges and universities drawn from all sections of the United States. The overall sample was 2,685 freshmen students participating in a national longitudinal study and of these the final sample contained 811 students, 280 attending five…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests