Because assessment of creative potential is important in the selection of leaders, it is recommended that the critical activities of any occupational assignment should be examined in connection with the whole range of abilities of the structure-of-intellect model. (CM)

Textbooks and teaching methods for adult basic education courses are frequently inappropriate for the cognitive ability level of the students. The assumption that these students have formal reasoning skills is often erroneous. (JD)

The focus of this essay on the psychological and pedagogical issues of the college introductory logic course includes a look at the roots of the informal logic movement, an analysis of logic and language, a statement of the need for evaluation of the informal logic course, and some suggested alternatives. (JN)

This article discusses the feasibility of and the skills needed for teaching basic economic concepts such as supply and demand in an informal learning situation, in this case the simulation of an economic system based on barter. (CJ)

The teacher's role is not one of a supplier of values. Rather it is that of facilitator and clarifier of the valuing process. Philosophical reasoning, disclosure of differences, and moral significance of those differences can be used to further understanding of a moral dilemma. (JN)

Reports on an exploratory study seeking to define broadly some indices of growth in writing. Notes that the comparison of last year high school and third year college students revealed a seeming lack of growth in rhetorical control but significant growth in the capacity to abstract to higher levels. (RL)

The cascade model of information processing is compatible with the relation between time and accuracy in speed-accuracy trade-off experiments. Findings regarding the additive factors methods led to reexamination of conclusions drawn from several studies about the locus of perceptual and attentional effects on processing. (Author/RD)

A developmental study of elementary school children's use of rule v computation in solving spacial perspective-taking problems. (CM)

Examined the development of reasoning about prosocial moral dilemmas in 125 elementary and high school students. Also attempted to determine the relationship of structure of prosocial moral judgment to story solution. (JMB)

The moral reasoning of Israeli Jewish, Israeli Bedouin, and Palestinian school children (N=93) who had been exposed to varying degrees of political violence and socioeconomic advantage was evaluated. Mutual solutions to moral dilemmas were given more frequently by Israeli Jewish children than Israeli Bedouin or Palestinian children as questions…

Examines relationship between Connected and Separate Knowing dimensions of Knowledge Styles Inventory (K. Knight and others, 1994) and learning modes of A. Kolb (1984), formal operational reasoning (B. Inhelder and J. Piaget, 1958, 1975; G. Tobin and W. Capie, 1981), and vocabulary and abstract thinking abilities (W. Shipley, 1940). Findings…

The use of facilitated communication by a 13-year-old boy with autism, severe mental retardation, and a seizure disorder is described. Several specific answers given to questions about short stories the facilitator was not familiar with indicated that, not only did the subject originate his own responses, he also demonstrated simple inferential…

Tested with adolescents and adults two predictions from Markovits and Barrouillet's developmental model of conditional reasoning related to the effects of the association between antecedent and consequent terms and the formulation of the minor premise on uncertainty responses. Found results consistent with hypotheses and indicating importance of…

Findings from a large database on student learning (videotapes over 10 years in 10 elementary and secondary school classrooms) show that when students engage in conversations in the presence of material objects, these objects provide a phenomenal background against which students can enact metaphorical gestures that embody entities that are…

Contrasts students' presymbolic and symbolic procedures in generalizing activities. Uses the semiotic-cultural theoretical approach and focuses on the role of body, discourse, and signs when students refer to mathematical objects. Identifies types of generalizations and discusses a specific kind of rupture in the ostensive gestures and…