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Parker, Walter C.; And Others – 1987
Twenty-four eleventh grade students attending a month-long, summer civic-leadership institute in a Pacific Northwest city participated in a study that examined their dialectical reasoning on civic issues. This reasoning was elicited through written scaffolding, with students guided explicitly to compose essays arguing for or against a position on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Citizenship, Civics, Content Analysis
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1985
One of three related documents produced in response to a need for direct instruction in thinking skills at the secondary level, this teaching guide for Book One and Book Two of "Thinking Through Language" is intended for junior or senior high school English teachers. The guide contains an introduction and summaries of Book One and Book Two,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Kirby, Dan; Kuykendall, Carol – 1985
One of three related documents produced in response to a need for direct instruction in thinking skills, this program for middle school or junior high school students bases its approach on involvement of students in direct experiences. The book contains four units. Focusing on perception, Unit 1: "Experiencing the Arts" begins with ways sensory…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution
Lipman, Matthew; And Others – 1977
This instructional manual is designed to accompany "Lisa," a philosophy reader for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students (ED 137 215). The aim of the course is to encourage children to consider and reflect upon their moral values. Concerned with ethics, "Lisa" is an attempt to understand moral conduct. Emphasis is on having the students learn to think…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Childhood Attitudes, Curriculum Guides, Educational Resources
Illinois Central Coll. East Peoria. – 1979
Illinois Central College's Development of Operational Reasoning Skills (DOORS) project, which is based on Piaget's developmental theory and learning cycle strategy, is described. The project provides a multidisciplinary freshman core program focusing on the improvement of student reasoning abilities. For each of the six DOORS courses--English,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Harvard Project Zero. – 1978
This report reviews major theoretical and empirical studies concerning the process of creativity and the skills involved in creating art. Part I describes process studies with adult subjects engaged in activities such as poetry writing, editing, and critiquing a poem. Ten amateur and ten professional poets were subjects. These studies analyzed the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Aesthetic Education, Art Expression, Childrens Art
Cole, Peggy – 1978
Law-related education programs for elementary school should be based on children's perceptions of reality. Psychologist Jean Piaget's studies of cognitive development indicate that children constantly reconstruct reality as they undergo new experiences. Children at early developmental stages may not be capable of understanding the origin and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Case Studies, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes

Howe, Frederick C. – Child Study Journal, 1993
Explores developmental patterns in children from kindergarten through grade six. Highlights physical development, including height, activity level, motor skills, and health; mental development, including abstract thought, academic focus, learning difficulties, subject preferences, and creativity; psychosocial development, including interpersonal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Books, Child Health, Childrens Literature
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Stahl, Robert J. – 1979
This paper describes a study to determine whether students can, with appropriate instructional materials, develop and apply a knowledge of art concepts. An opening section reviews research on concept acquisition. This study utilized a concept acquisition model developed in 1970 by R. Gagne. Gagne's model proposed that concepts are learned through…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Ability, Art Appreciation, Art Education
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1976
For this study, the second in the cross sectional series, based on the Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD) model, assessment batteries were developed to determine each child's level of attainment and related use of the concepts "equilateral triangle,""cutting tool,""noun," and "tree." Batteries were…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1976
For this study, the second in the cross sectional series, based on the Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD) model, assessment batteries were developed to determine each child's level of concept attainment and also the related use of the concepts "equilateral triangle,""cutting tool,""noun," and "tree."…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development
Becker, Jerry P., Ed. – 1992
In 1986 the United States (U.S.)-Japan Seminar on Mathematical Problem Solving convened to compare the state of problem solving in the classroom and in research in the two countries. The data and results given in this paper are the results of research conducted in the United States in response to the 1986 seminar. The U.S. and Japanese research…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Mohrman, Kathryn, Ed. – 1980
Curricular development in undergraduate programs in the biological, physical, and mathematical sciences at a number of colleges and universities are described. One common theme is the continuing interest in computers in higher education. As the student bodies of many campuses become more heterogeneous with increasing enrollments of minorities and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Astronomy, Calculus
Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education. – 1972
This volume includes reports of two research projects of the Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education. The first project, entitled Individual Analysis of Reading Prerequisites and Curriculum Content, is represented by two studies: (1) A Study of a Pretraining Program and Its Effect on a Subsequent Program for a Left-Right…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Tests, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education