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Lawson, Anton E.; Wollman, Warren T. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
According to Piaget's theory, maturation of the nervous system is sufficient for the development of formal thought. If this were the case, the job of the educational system would be small indeed. Rather, maturation determines only the totality of possibilities and impossibilities at a given stage. This study investigates whether instructional…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Piagetian Theory, Anatomy, Reading Instruction
Spaulding, Karen L.; Dwyer, Francis – 1999
This study examined the instructional effectiveness with which different job aid types facilitated learner achievement of different types of learning objectives and identified the degree to which low and high prior knowledge individuals profit from different job aid types. The instructional content used in the study was an instructional module on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anatomy, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis