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Dreyfus, Amos; Mazouz, Yossef – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1992
Assesses the ability of tenth grade students (n=364) to acquire meanings of graphs that are frequently used in their biology textbooks. Indicates that the main source of failure to process information equally well from tables and graphs was not a lack of basic analytical skills but rather a lack of understanding of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Biology, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking

Boylan, Colin – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1988
Reviews the theoretical framework of instructional programs and the emphasis on enhancing formal reasoning ability. Investigates the effect of an instructional program using inquiry-based learning in pre-service science teacher education students. Reports that the promotion of formal reasoning abilities may be achieved through the five-phase…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Cognitive Development, College Science, Foreign Countries

Niaz, Mansoor – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1987
Contends that student success in introductory science courses at the college and university level depends on formal operational reasoning ability, size of working memory, and the degree of field independence. Reports the study findings related to cognitive predictor variables based on the testing of Venezuelan science majors (N=95). (ML)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Science, Field Dependence Independence, Foreign Countries
Piburn, Michael D.; Baker, Dale R. – 1988
While logical reasoning skills are related to success in science, the relationship between thought and formal logic is not clear. Propositional Logic Test (PLT), error patterns of students' interpretations of logical proposition, and developmental patterns of the error type are described. Examined is the relationship between logical reasoning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Foreign Countries
Han, Jong-Ha – 1986
This paper describes a study designed to investigate the development of scientific reasoning or logical thinking patterns of South Korean secodary school students. The scientific reasoning or logical thinking patterns were categorized into patterns of logic such as seriation, combinations, proportion, control of variables, probability, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Adey, Phillip; Shayer, Michael – 1988
In an attempt to accelerate the development of formal operations in average young adolescents, up to 30 intervention lessons relating to all formal schemata were given by science teachers, over a period of 2 years, to classes in eight British schools. Boys starting the program aged 12 years-plus showed a pre-test, post-test effect size on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Mattheis, Floyd E.; And Others – 1985
The basic purpose of the cooperative research project was to study the level of reasoning skills in junior high school students in Japan and the United States (grades 7, 8, and 9). This study examined the relationships among logical thinking skills, integrated process skills, and attitudes of junior high school students in North Carolina.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations, International Cooperation

Shayer, Michael; Adey, Philip S. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1993
Three years after end of 2-year intervention program intended to promote formal operational thinking, achievement of students initially age 11 was tested by their results on British National examinations, taken at age 16 (experimental group n=88, control group n=103). In comparison with control classes, the effect size for science was 0.67,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Stages, Educational Research, Effect Size