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Elizabeth Pursell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Cognitive development of eighth-grade students, as identified by Jean Piaget, occurs during a time when many of them are transitioning between concrete operations and formal operations where the ability to think in abstract concepts becomes possible. Because of this period of transition, many eighth-grade students find difficulty in demonstrating…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Units of Study, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Fyfe, Emily R.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Educational Review, 2019
To promote learning and transfer of abstract ideas, contemporary theories advocate that teachers and learners make explicit connections between concrete representations and the abstract ideas they are intended to represent. "Concreteness fading" is a theory of instruction that offers a solution for making these connections. As originally…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Learning Processes, Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development
Statter, David; Armoni, Michal – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
Abstraction is one of the most fundamental ideas in computer science (CS), and as such, according to Bruner, it should be taught spirally, starting as early as possible and revisited at every level of education. However, teaching CS abstraction to novices is a very challenging task, and CS educational research has often demonstrated students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Computer Science Education, Abstract Reasoning

Kurtz, Barry; Karplus, Robert – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
This research study shows that it is possible to advance the use of proportional reasoning of many secondary school students by means of a well-designed teaching program. (MP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, Cognitive Development, Educational Research
New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1986
Developed in response to deficiencies in verbal and quantitative skills demonstrated by students entering New Jersey colleges and taking the New Jersey Basic Skills Placement Test, this overview is designed to help interested educators orient themselves to the important and rapidly growing field of thinking skills instruction. The Task Force on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives
Mba, Peter O. – West African Journal of Education, 1975
Problems in teaching language communication to the congenitally deaf child are discussed in this essay, and then suggestions are offered for providing mental development, development of verbal and associative memory, sensory training, and training in abstract reasoning. (LBH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Deafness, Developing Nations
Mason, John – 2002
This paper discusses ways to use worked examples in teaching mathematics. It is argued that neither investigative teaching such as discovery learning nor lecturing and starting from the abstract are helpful as they are based on emotive associations with general labels rather than precise details of pedagogic strategies. (KHR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Formal Operations

Jones, Graham A.; Langrall, Cynthia W.; Thornton, Carol A.; Mogill, A. Timothy – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1999
Evaluates the thinking of third grade students in relation to an instructional program in probability which was informed by a research-based framework that included a description of students' probabilistic thinking. Reveals that overcoming misconceptions in sample space, applying both part-part and part-whole reasoning, and using invented language…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Grade 3, Learning

Nippold, Marilyn A.; Hegel, Susan L.; Uhden, Linda D.; Bustamante, Silvia – Journal of Children's Communication Development, 1998
Comparison of the comprehension of proverbs of 200 students (50 each in Grades 6, 8, 10, and 12) found growth in proverb comprehension was most pronounced at two transitional points in development: when students move from late childhood into early adolescence, and again when they move from late adolescence into adulthood. Implications for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Development
Newmann, Fred M.; And Others – 1988
Staff developers who have worked intensively with teachers to promote higher order thinking tend to emphasize similar types of training activities, especially involving teachers in higher order thinking and authentic problem solving in their subjects and translating ideas about the teaching of thinking into specific lessons for students.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Blank, Marion; Solomon, Frances – Child Develop, 1969
Research supported by U.S. Public Health Service grant K3-MH-10, 749. Disadvantaged Youth
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Conventional Instruction, Individual Instruction
Anderson, Lorraine Kvistberg – 1990
A research project explored the idea that reasoning develops in distinct phases of thinking as individuals journey from simplistic learning of facts to highly proficient consequence predicting of integrated relationships. These results were derived from a study that examined the thinking processes and problem-solving actions of 13 students and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Higher Education
1969
This study compares the effects of Montessori methods of instruction and methods of direct verbal instruction. Montessori methods rely on the ability of the child to learn through physical interaction with inanimate objects and minimize verbal behavior by teacher and student, while the direct verbal method works mainly through language use, both…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Instructional Improvement

Bishop, Jeanne E. – Science Teacher, 1978
Discusses the importance of developing students' understanding of certain spatial aspects of important concepts. Piaget's contributions to the development of spatial conceptualization are included. Some examples for applying spatial techniques in earth sciences, physics, and chemistry are also presented. (HM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning

Roadrangka, Vantipa; Yeany, Russell H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1985
Data from 60 observations of 10 teachers and 10 each of their students showed that type/quality of teaching strategy predicted 37 percent of variance in engagement and that the more indirect the teaching strategy, the greater the students' involvement in learning tasks. Implications of these and other findings are discussed. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Intermediate Grades