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Measured Formal Thought and That Required to Understand Formal Concepts in Secondary School Biology.
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Renner, John W.; Cate, Jean McGregor – 1985
Students (N=22) enrolled in secondary school biology were evaluated for their abilities to use: combinatorial logic; correlational reasoning; separation and control of variables; exclusion of irrelevant variables; proportional reasoning; and probabilistic reasoning. Each student responded individually to six Piagetian tasks designed to measure…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Biology, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
The Rejection of Nonscientific Beliefs about Life: Effects of Instruction and Reasoning Skills.
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Lawson, Anton E.; Weser, John – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Investigated is the extent to which students' nonscientific beliefs change by comparing before and after instruction as a function of students' reasoning skill. Nonscientific beliefs discussed include special creation, orthogenesis, the soul, nonreductionism, vitalism, teleology, and nonemergentism. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Beliefs, Biology, Cognitive Development
The Relationship between Abstract Concept Achievement and Prior Knowledge, Formal Reasoning Ability, and Sex among Some Egyptian Secondary School Students.
Zeitoun, Hassan Hussein – 1988
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the achievement of some abstract concepts in "molecular genetics" and prior knowledge, formal reasoning ability, and sex. The major findings of the study were: (1) prior knowledge had a high significant correlation with the achievement of abstract concepts; (2) the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Development