Discusses the impact of role playing on the change of moral judgment maturity in 96 college students. Subjects showed both immediate and delayed increases in moral judgment maturity when role playing a moral dilemma against an opponent who employed reasoning above the subject's initially assessed state. (LLK)

Paper proposes how the impact of the mechanical and intellectual elements of technology on, and their application to education can be exploited to evolve a technology within education. (Author)

The course of study described in this book aims to enlarge the normal purview of literary study to include the subjective cases and purposes for reading and coming to literary judgments. Although the sequence of the four phases in this study should be maintained, the time spent on each phase may last a semester, a year, or longer. The four phases…

Reading is defined operationally as the cognitive process of perceiving and ordering our environment. As such it is a psychomotor process involving the reorganization of experiences evoked by some stimulus. Thus defined, reading is equated with perception and has several primary functions, including concept building, which begins with perception…

This study was designed to serve several purposes: (1) to determine the level of logical thinking in first term college freshmen of both sexes; (2) to find if their level rose during the first year and especially if it increased as a result of brief intervention aimed at raising the level; and (3) to examine the relationship between logical…

Five experiments were performed in the area of children's causal reasoning to validate a previously reported developmental difference, to examine the role of a possible mediating mechanism, and to test a number of competing theoretical interpretations. (GO)

This study compared the behaviors of children who had been in a toddler day care program at least 13 months with children who had been there less than 6 months. The children who had been in the program longer were rated significantly higher in ability to get along with peers, problem solving, ability to abstract, and ability to plan. (JMB)

This study attempted to clarify the developmental progression in the understanding of conditional sentences by evaluating the capacity of 71 third, 70 sixth, and 64 ninth graders to learn three interpretations of abstract conditional sentences. (JMB)

The study with 30 five-year-olds and 30 seven-year-olds demonstrated that children as young as five have an emerging ability to solve both verbal and perceptual proportional analogy problems and to detect the meaning of proportional metaphoric sentences. (Author/DB)

According to Matthew Lipman, director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, philosophy is the best answer to the call for critical thinking because it provides experience in reasoning that will prepare children much better than the limited knowledge of the disciplines. (TE)

The study examined whether learning disabled students differed in development of proportional reasoning and whether their disability was in the use of symbols and language rather than ability to solve proportional problems. Developmental scalograms supported the hypothesis that LD Ss' proportional reasoning abilities are developmental, not unlike…

Assesses five- and 10-year-old children's understanding of second-order belief structures in acted stories in which two characters were independently informed about an object's unexpected transfer to a new location. Results show unexpected early competence around age six or seven under optimal conditions when inference of second-order beliefs is…

Examines Paul H. Hirst's concept of reason as implied in his theory of the forms of knowledge. Explains Hirst's view of the temporal nature of knowledge and analyzes his key concepts of objectivity, judgement, the given, and facts. (Author/DMM)

One hundred and sixty gifted children (4-11 years old) participated in a study confirming a hierarchy of difficulties for logic activities and the existence of a developmental trend in logic learning. (CL)

A common approach used for introducing algebra to young adolescents is an exploration of visual patterns and expressing these patterns as functions and algebraic expressions. Past research has indicated that many adolescents experience difficulties with this approach. This paper explores teaching actions and thinking that begins to bridge many of…