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Peer reviewedFlatley, Joannis K.; Gittinger, Dennis J. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Specific teaching strategies to help hearing-impaired secondary students comprehend abstract concepts include (1) pinpointing facts and fallacies, (2) organizing information visually, (3) categorizing ideas, and (4) reinforcing new vocabulary and concepts. Figures provide examples of strategy applications. (DB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Advance Organizers, Classroom Techniques, Comprehension
Peer reviewedFarrell, Margaret A.; Farmer, Walter A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1985
Investigated proportional reasoning of a select group of older, college-bound adolescents on a task set in a geometric/spatial context with a multiple-proportion, multiplicative structure. Sex-related differences and the influence of course experience in mathematics and science were also investigated. (JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
