We are facing a rather worrying brew of developments affecting practical intellectual life in modern society and the very well-being of society itself. These developments threaten to degrade the central role that the cognitive endeavor, known as reasoned evaluative criticism, plays in the achievement, maintenance, and enhancement of the good…

The rapid changes in information technology in recent years have rendered current high school curricula unable to cope with student needs. In consequence, students do not possess the proper skills required in today's information era. Specifically, many students lack the skills to search efficiently for information. Moreover, even when abundant…

The purpose of this study was to develop a model for evaluating a professional development school program to enact an evidence-based model for a continuous cycle of program improvement. Guided by the logic model for program evaluation, we developed three survey instruments based on the professional development school standards of the National…

This study uses historical data to explore the consistency of SAT® I: Reasoning Test score conversions and to examine trends in scaled score means. During the period from April 1995 to December 2003, both Verbal (V) and Math (M) means display substantial seasonality, and a slight increasing trend for both is observed. SAT Math means increase more…

The evaluation of educational or social programmes is paramount for establishing success or impact in higher education. Evaluation questions about programme goals (e.g. better performance of first-year students) or about the quality of programme strategies (design and implementation) and effectiveness of delivery (coordinator inputs and…

Provides commentaties to the linguistic articles in the anthology "Presuppositions in Philosophy and Linguistics" (1973), edited by Janos S. Petofi and Dorothea Franck. (Text is in German.) (DS)

Attempts to refute Riegel's (1973) claim that Piaget's formal operations distort reality for the sake of logic. It is suggested that Piaget's figurative-operative distinction is dialectical and that Piaget's theory is valuable precisely for its resolution of how a person remains internally ordered while adapting to the external world. (JMB)

The study was designed to test the hierarchy of difficulty in the acquisition of principles of class and conditional logic for 120 children of normal intelligence, and to compare the relative rates of logic development for those children of normal intelligence with the rate of logic development found in a previous study involving 120 gifted…

THIS STUDY DEALT WITH THE CONCEPT OF DEDUCTIVE LOGIC AND ITS USE BY ADOLESCENTS, AGES 10-18. TWO EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS OF CONCERN IN THIS STUDY WERE (1) THAT OF READINESS FOR MASTERY OF LOGIC AND (2) THAT OF THE NATURAL-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF MASTERY OF LOGIC. TWO DEDUCTION TESTS WERE DEVELOPED, ONE FOR EACH OF THE TYPES OF LOGIC TREATED. THEY WERE…

To test the hypotheses that gifted Ss will be better able to supply missing conclusions to conditional syllogisms as a factor of maturation and that the hierarchy of difficulty in supplying conclusions will be from affirming the antecedent and denying the consequent, to linear transitivity to nonlinear transitivity, and finally to conditional…

In considering the problems foreign students have with the determiners "the,""a/an,""some," and "all" (for which zero-determiner may be substituted), the author observes: (1) The semantic classifications of nouns often seem quite arbitrary to the foreigner. (2) There is always some minimal linguistic or…

This document, which consists of three parts and a summary, surveys a) the structure of theoretical systems, b) the functions of theoretical systems, and c) the formal logical methods of the theoretical scientist in order to find approaches to educational research. Emphasis throughout is placed on the discrimination of concepts-by-intuition from…

To analyze the relationship of logical development and comprehension of syntax, 60 children aged 5-8 years were individually tested. Measures included class inclusion, conservation of substance and weight, a sorting test, and a test of comprehension of active and passive sentences. Class inclusion was not strongly related to syntactical…

Two studies were conducted to examine whether the elderly maintain the competence to solve Piagetian conservation problems. The results are discussed in terms of a distinction between competence and performance. (JMB)