NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
King, Patricia M.; Kitchener, Karen Strohm – 1985
The reflective judgment (RJ) model is described, along with research findings based on the model and contributions to understanding student intellectual development in higher education. The RJ model (Kitchener & King, 1981) describes a series of changes that occur in the ways adults/young adults understand the process of knowing, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adult Development, Cognitive Ability, College Students
Ratcliff, James L.; And Others – 1991
This report describes the "Differential Coursework Patterns (DCP) Project," which developed the Cluster Analytic Model (CAM) to look at effects of different patterns of college coursework on the general learned abilities of students as determined by such measures as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test. The model looks for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Solow, Razel E. – Roeper Review, 1995
A year-long qualitative study of 10 families of gifted children (grades 5 to 8) found 4 levels of parental reasoning concerning their child's social and emotional development: (1) no framework; (2) an intellectual framework only; (3) a full intellectual and partial social-emotional framework; and (4) a comprehensive framework recognizing both…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Development, Child Development, Child Rearing
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1983
The "componential" theory of intelligence explains intelligence in terms of three types of component processes that make up intelligent performance. The first of these, "metacomponents," are the higher-order or executive processes that one uses to plan what one is going to do, monitor what one is doing, and evaluate what one…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Demonstration Programs
Ratcliff, James L.; And Others – 1991
This paper reports on a study which used a new model, the Cluster Analytic Model (CAM), to determine the relationship between college coursework and general learning, as determined by the nine item types of the General Test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and a faculty survey of perceptions of general learned abilities in relation to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Development, College Curriculum
Bedard, Denis; And Others – 1996
A 2-year study at the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec) investigated the changes in six medical students' clinical reasoning processes as they participated in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. In each year, students performed a think-aloud protocol with two medical case problems to solve, one in cardiology and one in urology. In the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cardiology, Cognitive Processes, College Students