Examining Gifted Primary School Students’ Logical Reasoning Ability

Teaching High School Students Applied Logical Reasoning

The rapid changes in information technology in recent years have rendered current high school curricula unable to cope with student needs. In consequence, students do not possess the proper skills required in today’s information era. Specifically, many students lack the skills to search efficiently for information. Moreover, even when abundant information is available to them, students are unab...

Logical reasoning process for high school and college students

Logical reasoning is at the heart of math courses. Wason’s selection task has been widely investigated to examine students’ reasoning; however, previous studies found that few participants could correctly solve Wason’s tasks. This study adopted a modified format of the selection task, context-embedded problems, as well as the standard selection tasks to look into high school and college student...

Pre-service Primary School Teachers’ Logical Reasoning Skills

Logical reasoning skills are important for a successful mathematical learning and in students’ future career. These skills are essential for a primary school teacher, because they need to explain solving methods and solutions to their pupils. In this research we studied pre-service primary school teachers’ logical reasoning skills. The results show that only one third of the students gave an ar...

Primary School Teachers’ Ability to Recognise Resilience in their Students

This study investigated teachers’ knowledge of, and capacity to identify resilience, in 92 primary school children in Far North Queensland. It was found that although teachers’ knowledge of resilience was apparently strong, and they reported a significant level of confidence in their ability to assist children in building resilience, their capacity to identify levels of resilience in their stud...

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