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Comparison of Teachers' and School Psychologists' Accuracy in Assigning Basic Academic Tasks to Underlying CHC-Model Cognitive Abilities
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Petruccelli, Meredith Lohr; Fiorello, Catherine A.; Thurman, S. Kenneth – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
Teacher perceptions of their students' cognitive abilities affect the referrals they make and intervention strategies they implement. In this study, teachers and school psychologists were asked to sort basic academic tasks into categories on the basis of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) broad cognitive abilities, such as fluid reasoning and…
Descriptors: Social Theories, School Psychologists, Teacher Attitudes, Classification
Learning about Learning: Propositional Abilities. A Personal Workshop. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Lowery, Lawrence F. – 1981
This book on propositional reasoning is part of a series designed to assist beginning and experienced teachers in becoming regular evaluators of their own instruction. The book consists of two parts. The first part provides information on probabilistic, disjunctive, combinatorial, implicational, deductive, and proportional reasoning and on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Formal Operations and Learning Style Predict Success in Statistics and Computer Science Courses.
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Hudak, Mary A.; Anderson, David E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Studies 94 undergraduate students in introductory statistics and computer science courses. Applies Formal Operations Reasoning Test (FORT) and Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Finds that substantial numbers of students have not achieved the formal operation level of cognitive maturity. Emphasizes need to examine students learning style and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability