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Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1982
In order to study children's strategies for solving geometric matrices similar to those in the Raven's Progressive Matrices, ninety 7-, 10-, and 13-year-old boys and girls were administered tests of auditory and visual memory, the Raven's, and geometric matrices. The matrices varied in number of elements (1 to 3) and number of transformations (0…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textGray, William M.
Piaget has hypothesized that concrete and formal operations can be described by specific logical models. The present study focused on assessing various aspects of four concrete operational groupings and two variations of two formal operational characteristics. Six hundred twenty-two 9-14 year old students participating in the Human Sciences…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Kenney, Margaret J., Ed.; Hirsch, Christian R., Ed. – 1991
This yearbook provides the mathematics education community with specific perceptions about discrete mathematics concerning its importance, its composition at various grade levels, and ideas about how to teach it. Many practical suggestions with respect to the implementation of a discrete mathematics school program are included. A unifying thread…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs
Gaynor, Alan Kibbe – 1998
This book is directed toward students in organizational-theory and problem-analysis classes and their professors, as well as school administrators seeking to examine their problems and policies from new perspectives. It explains and illustrates methodology for describing, documenting, and analyzing organizational problems. Part I, "Methodology,"…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Bureaucracy
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1986
This issue of the journal contains abstracts and critiques of 11 research reports. Three of the reports concern problem solving; the remainder pertain to the following topics: the impact of secondary schooling and secondary mathematics on student mathematical behavior; figural matrices; computer-video instruction in mathematics; equivalent…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Computer Managed Instruction
Hilligen, Wolfgang – 1976
An innovative social studies teacher education program at the University of Tubingen, West Germany, is described. The problems, aims, and structure of the course of study as well as general theories of learning in West Germany are discussed and these educational phenomena are compared with their American counterparts. The paper is presented in…
Descriptors: Civics, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Developmental Programs
