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Peer reviewedTirri, Kirsi; Pehkonen, Leila – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2002
This study explored the moral reasoning and scientific argumentation of 31 Finnish adolescents gifted in science. In qualitative essays and interviews, the pupils were asked to identify moral dilemmas in science and provide solutions to them. Two illustrative cases of students' argumentation who had either average or high scores on the Defining…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Download full textPiburn, Michael; Enyeart, Morris – 1985
A sample of 217 students (from grades 4 to 8) who were enrolled in an elementary school science-oriented gifted and talented program were compared to 91 mainstreamed subjects in grades 7 through 10. Assessement instruments included: a battery of Piagetian measures designed to assess combinatorial reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, and the ability…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
