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Prendergast, Wilfred Francis – 1984
This study investigated problem solving skills in mechanics problems that required the use of diagrams. These skills were examined in two ways. First, the study examined student problem solving skills using solution scripts from the Western Australian Tertiary Admission Examination in physics. Solution attempts by students in the 1978 and 1979…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Heuristics, Masters Theses
Peer reviewedGill, C. E.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
This study analyzed the Tertiary Admission Examination and Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test results for 264 pairs of 17-year-old monozygotic and dizygotic twins in Western Australia to determine if examination performance is influenced by environmental or genetic factors. Purely environmental models are rejected as inadequate explanations of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Ability, Environmental Influences
