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Dover, Arlene; Shore, Bruce M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1991
Nineteen gifted students and 11 average students, age 11, completed Einstellung Test problems and were queried about their metacognitive knowledge. A three-way interaction among giftedness, speed, and flexibility was found, with metacognitive knowledge as the criterion. Regardless of speed, inflexible children had less metacognitive knowledge than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Gifted, Interaction
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Baroody, Arthur J.; Gatzke, Mary R. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1991
Explored is young children's ability to estimate set sizes and use reference points such as 10. Results indicated that many children could accurately place sets somewhat smaller than a reference point but had difficulty placing sets somewhat larger than a reference point. (CW)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Mathematics
Keller, Bonnie; Reigeluth, Charles M. – 1982
Inconsistencies in the use of terminology to describe instructional treatments, confounding of discovery and expository methods with other aspects of instruction, and inconsistencies in defining independent and dependent variables within and between studies have all contributed to the lack of definitive conclusions about the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Discovery Learning, Games