Studied the effects of familiar and abstract task content on self-directed inductive learning with 2 groups of college students (n=50). As expected, learning outcome was higher in the group performing the concrete task. Discusses reasons for the content effect. (SLD)

Reasoning and learning are closely related, both being the methods of solving problems, learning usually results from the process of reasoning. All inventions, discoveries, art, literature and advances in culture and civilization are based on thinking, reasoning and problem solving capacity of human being. A sound reasoning leads to better…

There now appears to be widespread agreement that early childhood mathematics education (ECME) should be implemented on a wide scale, particularly for disadvantaged children. Yet little is known about the teaching of early mathematics. The goal of this paper is to demystify the process. We analyze one early childhood teacher's work as she attempts…

This research study tests Selman's (1980) hypothesis that different games pull players toward particular kinds of reasoning through a developmental comparison of children's reasoning in two games, Tic Tac Toe and the Guessing Game. The present study focuses on two basic questions and their educational implications: (1) What differences and…

Valid reasoning is a difficult task and vice and virtue are not always clearly distinguishable in human reasoning. Discusses different ways of analyzing and presenting viewpoints in arguments with the intention of clarifying proper generalization and scholarly detail. (Author/RK)

Two experiments examined the ability of preschool children to reason about the numerical relations greater than and less than. Results showed that children as young as 21/2 years of age could make number-based relational judgments and compare two number pairs on the basis of a common ordering relation. (Author/JMB)

Individual artistic creativity has no place in the development of art, science, or society. If an intellectual has a thorough understanding of intellectual traditions and appreciation of the situation, s/he needs to be no more than reasonable to produce what have been hitherto considered products of genius. (MT)

Illustrates how the punchline finds the flaw in the system, but the system remains operable. (EL)

Twelve mildly mentally retarded and 12 MA-matched nonretarded individuals were tested for speed and accuracy in responding to questions requiring different processing depth and then given an unexpected recognition task. Retarded individuals required progressively more encoding time relative to nonretarded individuals as processing depth increased.…

Study suggests that the level of performance may depend on the capacity (increasing with age) of the short-term memory store. (Editor)

According to Sir Herbert Read, the best form of art results from the workings of the unconscious mind. (CK)

The performance of 18 neurocognitively impaired learning disabled children (6 to 10 years old) on visual abstraction was compared to that of 20 intact learning disabled (LD) and 20 normal children. The Abstraction Test for Children was specifically developed and standardized as the measure of abstraction. (Author)