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Download full textPilotti, Maura A. E.; Aamir, Siddiqua; Al Ghazo, Runna; Al Kuhayli, Halah Abdulaziz – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The main aim of the present investigation was to examine conditional reasoning skills in college students whose educational past had emphasized verbatim learning. A successive independent-samples design was utilized to explore the effects of instruction that explicitly targeted critical thinking principles in either freshman students or…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Prior Learning, Cognitive Processes
Direct linkLamb, Richard L.; Firestone, Jonah B. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
Conflicting explanations and unrelated information in science classrooms increase cognitive load and decrease efficiency in learning. This reduced efficiency ultimately limits one's ability to solve reasoning problems in the science. In reasoning, it is the ability of students to sift through and identify critical pieces of information that is of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Science Process Skills, Computation
Peters, William H. – 1982
A study was undertaken to determine if there was a difference in verbal responses in classrooms of teachers who scored high and who scored low on the complexity scale of the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI), which measures teacher tolerance of ambiguity and preference for complexity. Forty college English teachers were tested and ranked…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Ambiguity, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
