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Download full textMinskoff, Esther Hirsch – 1967
The study analyzed teacher-pupil interaction in the classes of nine experimental (E) and eight control (C) teachers and their 167 mentally retarded pupils (mean age = 10.2, mean IQ = 68.76) The E-teachers were given 32 training sessions in an experimental curriculum and the inductive teaching method. Classes were tape recorded for 1 day. Analysis…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking
Gallagher, James J. – 1965
The study identified what influence university laboratory attandance had upon cognitive and attitudinal dimensions of gifted secondary school students (IQ's above 125). Tests from the Guilford battery, a self concept scale, and an adaptation of the Coleman Attitude Scale were administered to both the laboratory and the secondary school populations…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking
"The Big Old Conversation": Reflections on Mathematical Tasks and Discourse. NCRTL Craft Paper 95-5.
Beasley, Kathrene; Featherstone, Helen – 1995
A third-grade teacher and a teacher educator argue that, in an elementary mathematics class in which the teacher is encouraging the children to communicate and justify their mathematical ideas, the features of a mathematical task shape the mathematical discourse. They conjecture that divergent tasks, problems with many correct answers, may…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Convergent Thinking, Discourse Modes
Developing Thinking Skills in Young Children: Teacher/Assistant Teacher Staff Development Materials.
Cliatt, Mary Jo; Shaw, Jean M. – 1987
This manual contains materials for seven workshops on developing thinking skills in young children for teachers and teacher assistants in kindergarten through third grade. Contents of workshop (W) material focus, respectively, on (W1) convergent and divergent thinking; (W2) Bloom's levels of thinking; (W3) decision making, concept development, and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Convergent Thinking, Decision Making, Divergent Thinking
Gallagher, James J.; And Others – 1967
A research project attempted to identify and classify productive thought processes of gifted junior high school students and their teachers. Subjects were 176 gifted high achieving students of both sexes with a verbal IQ range of 127.21 to 136.35, a nonverbal IQ range of 122.88 to 134.59, and a chronological age range of 12.50 to 14.63 years. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Werdelin, Ingvar – 1968
The value of using inductive and deductive methods in instructing a mathematical principle and foreign language alphabet are tested with sample groups of sixth and eighth grade students in two separate educational experiments. In both cases, the instructional methods used were--(1) instruction in principle before application to examples, (2)…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Convergent Thinking
