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Peer reviewedYanowitz, Karen L. – School Science and Mathematics, 2001
Presents a study in which some students in grades 3-6 were taught scientific concepts using instructional analogies while others received expository texts not containing analogies. Indicates that students who received the analogical text demonstrated better inferential reasoning than students who received the non-analogical text. (Contains 57…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Learning about Learning: Propositional Abilities. A Personal Workshop. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Lowery, Lawrence F. – 1981
This book on propositional reasoning is part of a series designed to assist beginning and experienced teachers in becoming regular evaluators of their own instruction. The book consists of two parts. The first part provides information on probabilistic, disjunctive, combinatorial, implicational, deductive, and proportional reasoning and on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
