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Download full textRohwer, William D., Jr. – 1972
This project was concerned with the topic of elaborative activity and learning efficiency. "Elaboration" is regarded as an hypothetical process, internal to the learner, which consists of conceiving an event that can serve as a common semantic referent for elements that are initially disparate. The objective of the project was to examine…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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
Ross, G. Robert – 1977
A set of eight widely used inductive reasoning tests were investigated to determine whether or not they have different factorial structures. The eight inductive tests and three deductive tests, taken from the French Kit of Reference Tests for Cognitive Factors and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, were administered to 157 high school…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Testing, Deduction
