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Mathematics Education and Democracy Education
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Çetin, Ömer Faruk – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Democracy is a most accepted form of government system and has a great importance for citizens by allowing them equal and active participation in common life. As its development and characteristics are important for all citizens of a country, each democratic country puts much emphasis on democracy education in its educational curricula. In recent…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Democracy, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing
The Structure of Students' Beliefs about the Use of Representations and Their Performance on the Learning of Fractions
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Panaoura, Areti; Gagatsis, Athanasios; Deliyianni, Eleni; Elia, Iliada – Educational Psychology, 2009
Cognitive development of any concept is related with affective development. The present study investigates students' beliefs about the use of different types of representation in understanding the concept of fractions and their self-efficacy beliefs about their ability to transfer information between different types of representation, in relation…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis, Cognitive Development
A Factor Analytic Study of Children's Causal Reasoning.
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Berzonsky, Michael D. – 1970
Because knowledge of the component subskills of causal reasoning would aid in planning elementary science curricula, this study sought to identify component abilities through the individual administration of a battery of 29 tests to a randomly-selected sample of 84 first-graders, evenly divided by sex. These tests were: (1) verbal tests of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Factor Analysis
A New Kind of Developmental Science: Using Models To Integrate Theory and Research.
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Fischer, Kurt W.; Dawson, Theo L. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2002
Maintains that Demetriou and his colleagues' project shows how developmental scientists can assess concepts from multiple frameworks and relate them through explicit modeling and targeted research to build explanations powerfully grounded in data and theory. Presents doubts related to specific conclusions because of issues related to the design of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Problem Solving and Suicidal Behavior.
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Pollock, Leslie R.; Williams, J. Mark G. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1998
Reviews research focusing on problem-solving deficits and their relationship to suicidal behavior and considers some of the methodological problems that arise. Discusses findings in terms of active versus passive problem solving, state or trait factors, and the psychological processes underlying problem solving. (Author/JDM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Development, Depression (Psychology)
AN ANALYSIS OF A CLASS OF PROBLEM SOLVING BEHAVIOR. FINAL REPORT.
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ANDERSON, RICHARD C. – 1968
A CONCEPT ATTAINMENT TASK IN WHICH CHILDREN ARE ASKED TO IDENTIFY A CONCEPT THROUGH DETERMINING WHICH OF A SET OF OBJECTS ARE OR ARE NOT INSTANCES OF IT WAS USED TO INVESTIGATE THEIR PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST WAS THE QUESTION OF TO WHAT EXTENT THEY USED OR LEARNED THE STRATEGY OF VARYING ONE FACTOR WHILE HOLDING ALL OTHERS…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation