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Stamovlasis, Dimitrios; Papageorgiou, George; Tsitsipis, Georgios – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
Research in cognitive psychology and science education has acknowledged two antagonistic theoretical perspectives concerning students' knowledge. One perspective considers students' knowledge as coherent or theory-like, explaining the learning process in terms of framework theories and stable mental models, whereas the other considers it…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Scientific Concepts, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Ability
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Stavridou, Fotini; Kakana, Domna – Educational Research, 2008
Background: The study investigated a small range of cognitive abilities, related to visual-spatial intelligence, in adolescents. This specific range of cognitive abilities was termed "graphic abilities" and defined as a range of abilities to visualise and think in three dimensions, originating in the domain of visual-spatial…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Adolescents, Visual Perception, Foreign Countries