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Relationships between Middle School Students' Adaptive Reasoning when Creating Learner-Generated Drawings and Partner Talk during Inquiry-Based Mathematical Tasks
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Angela M. Frabasilio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adaptive reasoning is one of five components students use to develop mathematical expertise and become mathematically proficient. When students adapt their reasoning they are logically thinking about the mathematical relationships between concepts and adapting their thinking to solve problems. Three Act Math Tasks are popular math problems used in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Abstract Reasoning, Freehand Drawing, Cooperative Learning
Creating Science Simulations through Computational Thinking Patterns
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Basawapatna, Ashok Ram – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Computational thinking aims to outline fundamental skills from computer science that everyone should learn. As currently defined, with help from the National Science Foundation (NSF), these skills include problem formulation, logically organizing data, automating solutions through algorithmic thinking, and representing data through abstraction.…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking
A Unit in Sentential Logic for Junior High School Students; Involving Both Valid and Invalid Inference Patterns
Miller, William A. – Sch Sci Math, 1969
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Grade 7, Instruction, Logic
Development of the Concept of Inferential Validity.
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Moshman, David; Franks, Bridget A. – Child Development, 1986
Tested hypothesis that understanding validity of inference is a relatively late development by asking fourth and seventh graders and college students to sort sets of deductive arguments. None of fourth graders, 45 percent of seventh graders, and 85 percent of college students used validity as basis for distinguishing arguments. Experiments…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, College Students, Deduction
Turkish Middle School Students' Cognitive Development Levels in Science
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Çepni, Salih; Özsevgeç, Tuncay; Cerrah, Lale – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2004
Students' abstract reasoning abilities can differ from one society to another. Students' profiles play significant roles in these differences. The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between middle school students' cognitive development levels and their profiles (age, gender, and science achievement) using the Science Cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Middle School Students, Abstract Reasoning
Sex Differences in Mathematical Reasoning Ability: More Facts.
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Benbow, Camilla Persson; Stanley, Julian C. – Science, 1983
Results of seventh-grade students taking Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate that, by age 13, a large sex difference in mathematical reasoning ability exists; among students scoring greater than 700, boys outnumbered girls 13 to 1. Hypothesized factors thought to influence the difference (such as course taking, attitudes) were not supported by data…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academically Gifted, Cognitive Ability, Environmental Influences
The Construction and Comparison of Three Related Tests of Formal Reasoning.
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Carlson, Gaylen R.; Streitberger, Eric – Science Education, 1983
Compared formal reasoning responses of seventh-and eighth-grade students on three tests of formal reasoning. The three tests differ only in the mode of equipment presentation on identical test items and problems. Tests included three-dimension demonstration (Lawson), two-dimension showing drawings of materials used in three-dimensional test, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Ethical Inquiry: Instruction Manual to Accompany "Lisa."
Lipman, Matthew; And Others – 1977
This instructional manual is designed to accompany "Lisa," a philosophy reader for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students (ED 137 215). The aim of the course is to encourage children to consider and reflect upon their moral values. Concerned with ethics, "Lisa" is an attempt to understand moral conduct. Emphasis is on having the students learn to think…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Childhood Attitudes, Curriculum Guides, Educational Resources