Scientific Reasoning: Influences on Task Performance and Response Categorization.

Linn, Marcia C.

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Publication Date: 1977

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Scientific Reasoning: Influences on Task Performance and Response Categorization

Linn, Marcia C.

Science Education, 61, 3, 357-69, Jul-Sep 77

Four tasks which are frequently used to evaluate adolescent reasoning skill: (1) the pendulum task; (2) the ramp problem; (3) the cart experiment; and (4) the invisible magnetism experiment are analyzed to determine the Piagetian concepts that each measures. (CP)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Learning Theories, Logical Thinking, Science Education, Task Performance, Tests

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