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Peer reviewedFord, Nigel – Review of Educational Research, 1981
The question of whether skills in achieving understanding and retention of information at high levels of abstraction can be taught is addressed by analyzing some of the mental processes involved, and briefly reviewing a number of attempts that have been made to induce these processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
