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Peer reviewedKwon, Yong-Ju; Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Tests the hypothesis that an early adolescent brain growth plateau and spurt exists, and that this plateau and spurt influence students' ability to reason scientifically and to learn theoretical science concepts. Finds that measures of students' (n=210) prefrontal lobe activity correlated highly with scientific reasoning ability, and that these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Learning Plateaus
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E. – Science Education, 1982
The author examines Novak's position that science and mathematics educators should discard Piaget's theory of intellectual development in favor of Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning as a guide for teaching practice and research. (PB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E.; Weser, John – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Investigated is the extent to which students' nonscientific beliefs change by comparing before and after instruction as a function of students' reasoning skill. Nonscientific beliefs discussed include special creation, orthogenesis, the soul, nonreductionism, vitalism, teleology, and nonemergentism. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Beliefs, Biology, Cognitive Development
