Some Fundamental Questions about Scientific Thinking.

Collings, J. N.

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Publication Date: 1994

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Some Fundamental Questions about Scientific Thinking.

Collings, J. N.

Research in Science and Technological Education, v12 n2 p161-73 1994

Demonstrates that 11-year-old children's scientific thinking in formal operational terms can be significantly developed through training in the cognitive style of field independence determined by the Group Embedded Figures Test. Suggests students could perform formal operationally if they had the skill of identifying the variables to be manipulated. (LZ)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Field Dependence Independence, Formal Operations, Grade 5, Identification, Predictor Variables, Science Education

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Language: English

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