A Preliminary Search for Formal Operations Structures. [Report No.: HD-1725-02-7

Autor/in	Neimark, Edith D.
Institution	Rutgers, The State Univ., New Brunswick, NJ. Douglass Coll.
Titel	A Preliminary Search for Formal Operations Structures. [Report No.: HD-1725-02-7
Quelle	(1968), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Abstract Reasoning; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Tests; Decision Making Skills; Elementary School Students; Grade 4; Grade 5; Grade 6; Hypothesis Testing; Learning Processes; Organization; Problem Solving; Task Performance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Kognitive Entwicklung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Learning process; Lernprozess; Organisation; Organisationsstruktur; Problemlösen
Abstract	In a test the presence or absence of a "structure" in the individual's cognitive processes of formal operations thinking, 61 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students were administered three tasks supposedly requiring such a method of thinking. The three tasks were (1) a problem solving task (PS), (2) a chemistry task requiring a certain combination of substances to obtain a correct answer(CH), and (3) a correlation task requiring the matching of certain elements to obtain the correct answer (CO). Each subject was given all three tasks during two sessions with the experimenter. The higher the correlation between the performances of the students on all three tasks, the greater was the possibility of the existence of a formal operations thinking structure. The results indicated the presence of a low but consistent and significant correlation between tasks PS and task CO. Task CH did not correlate with either PS or CO. It is possible that the CH task contained properties that made it inappropriate for use with this age level of subject. (WD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01