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Onocha, C. O.; Okpala, P. N. – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1987
This study investigated the formal reasoning ability and the relationship between reasoning ability, sex, and age of 600 preservice primary teachers in Nigeria. Findings are summarized. (MT)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Education Majors, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Valanides, Nicolaos – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1997
Reasoning abilities of Cypriot 12th graders in five forms of formal logical thought were studied in relation to academic achievement and gender differences. Results support proposals that suggest that there are specialized abilities dealing with specific domains of reality. The five reasoning modes were significant predictors of achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations
Gudbjornsdottir, Gudny – 1989
The role of content in formal operations tasks was explored in research that systematically varied the content of tasks and children's performance by developmental level and socioeconomic status (SES). Subjects were 110 Icelandic 12-year-olds who had entered a longitudinal study when they were 7 years old. Two extreme ability groups of children…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Shemesh, Michal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Investigated were gender-related differences in the relationship between the development of formal reasoning skills and learning interests during the early adolescent stage. Results indicated that adolescent boys appeared to develop patterns of formal reasoning before their female classmates. Differences in subject preferences were also found. (CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Females, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations
Seng, Seok Hoon; Charles, Belinda – 1994
A common concern raised by teachers from secondary schools and junior colleges in Singapore is the apparent inability or reluctance of adolescents to think critically and originally. Adolescent thought processes are probably shaped by the change in intellectual pace and quality between the primary and secondary school curriculum. This study of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences
Lim, Tock Keng – 1993
The constructs of concrete and formal operational reasoning were examined in 459 15-year-old secondary school students (234 males and 225 females) in Singapore. Log linear models were used to explore the relationships between Piagetian level of reasoning, the level of intelligence, gender, and type of home-speaking environment among these…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Chinese, Concept Formation
Lim, Tock Keng – 1993
Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to test first- and second-order factor models on cognitive abilities and their invariance across male and female samples. Subjects were a stratified random sample of 234 male and 225 female 15-year-old students in Singapore attending Secondary 3 (the equivalent of grade 9). Four first-order factors were found…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Developmental Stages, Factor Structure, Females
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