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Peer reviewedYang, Chu-Ling; Wedman, John F. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1993
This study investigated conditions for optimizing college students' analogical problem solving. Students given pictorial (not verbal) representations of solutions to source problems were better problem solvers, as were students given a longer time. Students who derived personal solution principles to source problems were not superior to students…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Students, Higher Education, Nonverbal Learning
Peer reviewedRobinson, Nancy M.; Abbott, Robert D.; Berninger, Virginia W.; Busse, Julie; Mukhopadhyay, Swapna – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1997
A two-year study randomly assigned children (K-grade 2) with advanced mathematical skills (n=276) to two groups, an intervention group reflecting a constructivist approach or a control. Boys gained more than girls on quantitative and visual-spatial measures in the control, whereas the intervention group made greater gains in quantitative measures…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academically Gifted, Concept Formation, Logical Thinking
