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Timm, Joan Thrower; Gross, James R. – 1990
Previous investigations on Piagetian cognitive levels among college students both within and across academic disciplines have not addressed the issue of possible differences in cognitive levels between traditional undergraduates and older returning students. Piagetian cognitive levels were studied among traditional- and nontraditional-age college…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Zeitoun, Hassan Hussein – 1988
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the achievement of some abstract concepts in "molecular genetics" and prior knowledge, formal reasoning ability, and sex. The major findings of the study were: (1) prior knowledge had a high significant correlation with the achievement of abstract concepts; (2) the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Development
