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Jungwirth, Ehud – Gifted Education International, 1989
A logical thinking test containing logical fallacies was administered to groups of 16-year-old and 17-year-old students (N=437) in Austria, Israel, and the Philippines. Students considered very able performed satisfactorily when required to choose a logically sound option, but exhibited weak performance when test items required a logically…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Evaluative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Gifted
Peer reviewedHofstein, Avi; Mandler, Vera – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1985
Lawson's test was used with 66 ninth grade and 63 tenth grade students. Results show: that boys outperformed girls; a small correlation between achievement in science and mathematics and the Lawson test; and that Israeli students achieved significantly higher than United States students on the Piagetian skills measured by the test. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Tests, High Schools
