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Peer reviewedNiaz, Mansoor – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1989
Investigates the effect of cognitive style on the performance of college students on proportional reasoning tasks. Reports that students having proportional reasoning can be misled by the presence of field effects and that there was a significant correlation between the test of field independence and the items of proportional reasoning. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Style, College Science, Field Dependence Independence
