Authors
Richard Cowan, Laura D’Odorico, Harry B Kavanagh, Preben Kihl, Richard J Phillips, Brian Coe, Eiichi Kono, John Knapp, J Alegria, J Leybaert, J Morais, Michael W Casby, Kenneth F Ruder, Alyson Davies, Barbara Hunt Johnson, Gary Kose, Kurt Kraetschmer, Tim Langdell, Susana López Ornat, JR Martland, Patricia H Miller, GRE Ouweneel, Stuart Reifel, Anat Scher, PS Fry, AD Schliemann, TN Carraher, E Eugene Schultz, David S Smiley, Francesca Simion, Beatrice Benelli, Cristina Zorzato, Stephen Whittaker, John McShane, Nils Søvik, Nicola Yuill
Publication date
1983
Journal
The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills
Pages
571-603
Publisher
Springer US
Description
Thinking logically. can be considered as applying a set of techniques for evaluating information. Techniques of symbolic logic are but a sub-set of the above techniques. Whether or not such an evaluation is appropriate or feasible depends on one's purposes, the quality of the information, eg its completeness and one's resources, such as time. If such an evaluatIon does not take place automatically then eliciting the interest and cooperation of the participants in studies requiring their evaluation of information may be crucial.
In two exploratory studies, teenage physics students were presented with passages written in a scientific journalism style. One concerned the theroy that an asteroid collision caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and the other was about railway design and energy conservation. They were asked to write their answers to questions about the strength of the evidence presented, the strength of the …
Scholar articles
R Cowan, L D'Odorico, HB Kavanagh, P Kihl… - The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills, 1983
