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Buchbinder, Orly; McCrone, Sharon – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Mathematics teacher education programs in the United States are charged with preparing prospective secondary teachers (PSTs) to teach reasoning and proving across grade levels and mathematical topics. Although most programs require a course on proof, PSTs often perceive it as disconnected from their future classroom practice. Our design research…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; Allen, Melissa M.; Kirsch, Dixon I. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2000
Relationships between word knowledge and proverb comprehension was examined in 150 typically achieving adolescents (ages 12, 15, and 18). Word knowledge was associated with proverb comprehension in all groups, particularly in the case of abstract proverbs. Results support a model of proverb comprehension in adolescents that includes bottom-up in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Models
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Monaghan, John; Ozmantar, Mehmet Fatih – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2006
We comment on the paper "The co-emergence of machine techniques, paper-and-pencil techniques, and theoretical reflection: A study of CAS use in secondary school algebra" by Carolyn Kieran and Paul Drijvers. We look at aspects of Kieran and Drijvers' analysis with regard to "task-technique-theory" in the light of a model of abstraction in context…
Descriptors: Algebra, Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Models
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Hirschhorn, Daniel B.; Thompson, Denisse R. – Mathematics Teacher, 1996
Presents a model for teaching reasoning using technology in the contexts of algebra and geometry. (MKR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, Educational Technology, Geometry
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Hartoonian, H. Michael – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1980
Presents a theoretical model that attempts to lessen the fragmentation of skill instruction in social studies. The model uses reasoning as a goal toward which social studies instruction can move. Curriculum implications relative to skill coordination are discussed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs
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Brown, David E.; Clement, John – Instructional Science, 1989
Discussion of students' prior knowledge and its effect on analogical reasoning focuses on four case studies of high school and college students that were designed to determine factors important for success in overcoming misconceptions via analogical reasoning. Explanatory models are explained, and abstract transfer versus explanatory model…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Case Studies, Higher Education
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Kay, Linda; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1986
The ReQuest procedure, designed to teach students to raise questions independently, has many components that lend themselves to solving some of the problems faced by the teacher of juvenile delinquents. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Delinquency
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Adey, Philip; Shayer, Michael – Physics Education, 1988
Attempts to show that not only can density be taught to lower ability pupils but that by doing so, there is the possibility of assisting pupils to develop their reasoning powers. Lists teaching activities that help in this process. (CW)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Greeno, James G.; And Others – 1979
Problems were presented to 13 university students in which letters were to be added or subtracted (e.g., B + D = ? or F - ? = D). After each problem, each subject gave a retrospective protocol indicating the way in which the problem was solved. Models of performance by each subject in each experimental session shared major properties; choices by…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes
Greeno, James G.; And Others – 1979
Hierarchically organized knowledge about actions has been postulated to explain planning in problem solving. Perdix, a simulation of problem solving in geometry with schematic planning knowledge, is described. Perdix' planning knowledge enables it to augment the problem space it is given by constructing auxiliary lines. The planning system also…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Educational Research
Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. Teacher Certification and Placement Section. – 1973
The development of a competency-based teacher certification program of social studies teachers in the state of Minnesota included this conceptual framework for the major social studies disciplines. Each of the major disciplines - anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology and philosophy, and sociology - are defined…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Anthropology, Economics, Elementary Education