ADAPT Program (Accent on Developing Abstract Processes of Thought)
ADAPT Program: Essays
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Date of this Version
1977
Abstract
Puzzles testing proportional reasoning were done by twenty-five hundred students in beginning science courses. Responses indicated each student's stage of intellectual development a la Piaget. Final examination questions demanding either formal reasoning or only concrete reasoning were given in the same courses. Examination performance and proportional reasoning ability are correlated.