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Duval, Eilen; Whitlock, Earl – Florida Educational Research Council Research Bulletin, 1987
A project to improve higher level thinking skills of elementary students in Hillsborough County, Florida is reported as a feature article (66p). An introductory overview chapter reviews the literature on teaching thinking skills. Chapter 1 provides background information on the community and the two schools selected for the practicum. The second…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1988
This pamphlet reviews five reports that highlight an emerging consensus among researchers about the value of systematically incorporating cognitive instruction into the elementary school curriculum. First is a comprehensive framework by Robert J. Marzano and C. L. Hutchins for an integrated approach to thinking skills that has been developed and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
Avery, Patricia Grant – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1988
This study focused on the development of policy thought, or abstract thinking about policy issues. Political thought may be described as concrete thinking about political phenomena. It includes one's knowledge of and attitude toward objects, people, and events in the political sphere. Policy thought entails the abstract manner in which one…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Suhor, Charles – 1984
One of a series dealing with current issues affecting language arts instruction, this paper focuses on thinking skills. The paper begins by raising two issues: whether thinking skills should be taught as part of each subject area, as a separate skill, or both, and whether English and language arts teachers have a special role in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
Literacy Beat, 1988
Adeptness in abstractions and analysis--the language of math--is at least as important as adeptness at reading words for individuals in business and industry. Mathematics literacy stimulates the problem-solving and critical thinking skills that the workplace now demands. A National Assessment of Educational Progress study found that about half of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Course Selection (Students), Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs