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- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Masters Cognitive Science University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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- The development and validation of a classroom test of formal reasoning (1978) (549)
- Science Teaching and Development Of Thinking (1994) (404)
- Learning about evolution and rejecting a belief in special creation: Effects of reflective reasoning skill, prior knowledge, prior belief and religious commitment (1992) (278)
- Formal Reasoning Ability and Misconceptions concerning Genetics and Natural Selection. (1988) (251)
- What are the relative effects of reasoning ability and prior knowledge on biology achievement in expository and inquiry classes (1998) (234)
- A THEORY OF INSTRUCTION: USING THE LEARNING-CYCLE TO TEACH SCIENCE CONCEPTS AND THINKING SKILLS (1989) (224)
- A Review of Research on Formal Reasoning and Science Teaching. (1985) (217)
- Self-efficacy, reasoning ability, and achievement in college biology (2007) (204)
- The nature and development of hypothetico‐predictive argumentation with implications for science teaching (2003) (190)
- The Rejection of Nonscientific Beliefs about Life: Effects of Instruction and Reasoning Skills. (1990) (175)
- Relationships of science subject matter and developmental levels of learners (1975) (161)
- Predicting science achievement: The role of developmental level, disembedding ability, mental capacity, prior knowledge, and beliefs (1983) (154)
- Development of Scientific Reasoning in College Biology: Do Two Levels of General Hypothesis-Testing Skills Exist?. (2000) (152)
- Encouraging the transition from concrete to formal cognitive functioning-an experiment (1976) (145)
- What kinds of scientific concepts exist? Concept construction and intellectual development in college biology (2000) (134)
- The Nature and Development of Scientific Reasoning: A Synthetic View (2004) (131)
- Basic inferences of scientific reasoning, argumentation, and discovery (2009) (119)
- Effects of Collaborative Group Composition and Inquiry Instruction on Reasoning Gains and Achievement in Undergraduate Biology (2011) (115)
- What is the role of induction and deduction in reasoning and scientific inquiry (2005) (113)
- Why Isn't Inquiry Used in More Classrooms? (1986) (106)
- Reformed undergraduate instruction and its subsequent impact on secondary school teaching practice and student achievement (2003) (105)
- Effects of Learning Cycle and Traditional Text on Comprehension of Science Concepts by Students at Differing Reasoning Levels. (1999) (104)
- Linking Brain Growth with the Development of Scientific Reasoning Ability and Conceptual Change during Adolescence (2000) (103)
- The nature of advanced reasoning and science instruction (1982) (95)
- The acquisition of propositional logic and formal operational schemata during the secondary school years (1978) (94)
- The Generality of Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning: Making Scientific Thinking Explicit (2000) (92)
- Using the learning cycle to teach biology concepts and reasoning patterns (2001) (90)
- A quantitative analysis of responses to piagetian tasks and its implications for curriculum (1974) (86)
- Promoting Intellectual Development Through Science Teaching. (1973) (82)
- The acquisition of biological knowledge during childhood: Cognitive conflict or tabula rasa? (1988) (81)
- Balancing chemical equations: The role of developmental level and mental capacity (1985) (81)
- What Does Galileo's Discovery of Jupiter's Moons Tell Us About the Process of Scientific Discovery? (2002) (77)
- Formal reasoning, achievement, and intelligence: An issue of importance (1982) (75)
- The influence of instruction on proportional reasoning in seventh graders (1978) (74)
- A Better Way to Teach Biology. (1988) (74)
- The importance of analogy: A prelude to the special issue (1993) (73)
- Teaching formal reasoning in a college biology course for preservice teachers (1982) (71)
- The Learning Cycle (2002) (71)
- The Nature of Scientific Thinking as Reflected by the Work of Biologists & by Biology Textbooks (1992) (69)
- Predicting genetics achievement in nonmajors college biology (1988) (68)
- Evaluating College Science and Mathematics Instruction: A Reform Effort That Improves Teaching Skills. (2002) (62)
- Sex difference in concrete and formal reasoning ability as measured by manipulative tasks and written tasks (1975) (58)
- Concrete and Formal Thinking Abilities in High School Biology Students as Measured by Three Separate Instruments. AESOP (Advancement of Education in Science-Oriented Programs) Paper. (1974) (56)
- Hypothetico‐deductive reasoning skill and concept acquisition: Testing a constructivist hypothesis (1991) (54)
- Piagetian Theory and Biology Teaching (1975) (54)
- Sound and faulty arguments generated by preservice biology teachers when testing hypotheses involving unobservable entities (2002) (53)
- Relationship of Formal Reasoning to Achievement, Aptitudes, and Attitudes in Preservice Teachers. (1975) (51)
- Teaching Inquiry Science in Middle and Secondary Schools (2009) (50)
- Can physics develop reasoning (1977) (50)
- What Is the Role of Constructivist Teachers within Faculty Communication Networks (2007) (49)
- Training effects and generalization of the ability to control variables in high school biology students (1975) (48)
- Piagetian formal operational tasks: A crossover study of learning effect and reliability (1974) (48)
- How Do Humans Acquire Knowledge? And What Does That Imply About the Nature of Knowledge? (2000) (48)
- Inferences of clinical diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic error (2011) (47)
- Relationships among Level of Intellectual Development, Cognitive Style, and Grades in a College Biology Course. (1980) (47)
- What do tests of “formal” reasoning actually measure? (1992) (45)
- Deductive reasoning, brain maturation, and science concept acquisition: Are they linked? (1993) (43)
- The role of hypothetico-deductive reasoning and physical analogues of molecular interactions in conceptual change (1993) (42)
- Formal Operations and Field Independence in a Heterogeneous Sample (1976) (41)
- The factor structure of some piagetian tasks (1976) (40)
- Complex instructional analogies and theoretical concept acquisition in college genetics (2001) (39)
- Managing the Inquiry Classroom: Problems & Solutions (2000) (38)
- Intellectual Development Beyond Elementary School VI: Correlational Reasoning (1978) (38)
- The developmental learning paradigm (1979) (38)
- Neural Principles of Memory and a Neural Theory of Analogical Insight. (1993) (36)
- The Domain of Science Education. (1985) (35)
- Intellectual Development Beyond Elementary School VIII: Proportional, Probabilistic, and Correlational Reasoning (1980) (35)
- Effect on development of proportional reasoning skill of physical experience and cognitive abilities associated with prefrontal lobe activity (2000) (35)
- The reality of general cognitive operations (1982) (35)
- Cognitive level, cognitive style, and value judgment (1977) (34)
- Piagetian Theory and Instruction in Physics (1973) (34)
- Points of view: on the implications of neuroscience research for science teaching and learning: are there any? (2006) (34)
- A Scientific Approach to Teaching about Evolution & Special Creation (1999) (33)
- The Validity of Kolb Learning Styles and Neo-Piagetian Developmental Levels in College Biology (2002) (33)
- Is Piaget's epistemic subject dead? (1991) (32)
- Classroom Management for Successful Student Inquiry (2002) (32)
- The relative responsiveness of concrete operational seventh grade and college students to science instruction (1982) (29)
- Teaching the procedure of controlled experimentation: A piagetian approach (1977) (29)
- The Neurological basis of learning, development and discovery: implications for science and mathematics instruction / Anton E. Lawson (2003) (29)
- A Study of Levels of Concrete and Formal Reasoning Ability in Disadvantaged Junior and Senior High School Science Students. (1974) (29)
- Developing Formal Thought Through Biology Teaching. (1975) (28)
- A Learning Cycle Approach to Introducing Osmosis (2000) (27)
- Allchin's Shoehorn, or Why Science is Hypothetico-Deductive (2003) (26)
- A Summary of Research in Science Education--1984. (1985) (24)
- 1980 AETS Yearbook: The Psychology of Teaching for Thinking and Creativity. (1979) (24)
- An Inquiry Approach to Nonmajors Biology. (1990) (24)
- Levels of Intellectual Development and Reading Ability in Disadvantaged Students and the Teaching of Science. (1975) (23)
- T. rex, the Crater of Doom, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery (2004) (23)
- Development of Correlational Reasoning in Secondary Schools: Do Biology Courses Make a Difference? (1979) (23)
- Promoting Creative and Critical Thinking Skills in College Biology. (2001) (22)
- Proportional reasoning and the linguistic abilities required for hypothetico‐deductive reasoning (1984) (22)
- Relationships among Performances on Group Administered Items of Formal Reasoning (1979) (22)
- The Acquisition of Basic Quantitative Reasoning Skills during Adolescence: Learning or Development?. (1984) (20)
- The four‐card problem resolved? Formal operational reasoning and reasoning to a contradiction (1987) (20)
- Relationships Among Performances on Three Formal Operations Tasks (1977) (19)
- The acquisition of formal operational schemata during adolescence: The role of the biconditional (1983) (19)
- Use of reasoning to a contradiction in grades three to college (1990) (19)
- Guest Editorial (2010) (18)
- Acceptance of lack of closure: is it an index of advanced reasoning? (1979) (18)
- Intellectual Development in Preservice Elementary School Teachers: An Evaluation. (1975) (18)
- How Good Are Students at Testing Alternative Explanations of Unseen Entities? (2000) (18)
- Should theoretical concepts be taught before formal operations (1977) (17)
- The persistence of the candle-and-cylinder misconception (1999) (16)
- Relationships between Effective Inquiry Use and the Development of Scientific Reasoning Skills in College Biology Labs. (2001) (16)
- Using reasoning ability as the basis for assigning laboratory partners in nonmajors biology (1992) (16)
- The effects of causality, response alternatives, and context continuity on hypothesis testing reasoning (1983) (15)
- At what levels of education is the teaching of thinking effective (1993) (15)
- The Origin of Conditional Logic: Does a Cheater Detection Module Exist? (2002) (15)
- How “scientific” is science education research? (2009) (15)
- Connecting Science and Mathematics: The Nature of Scientific and Statistical Hypothesis Testing (2008) (14)
- Combining variables, controlling variables, and proportions: Is there a psychological link? (1979) (14)
- Cultural diversity and differences in formal reasoning ability (1984) (14)
- A neurological model of sensory‐motor problem solving with possible implications for higher‐order cognition and instruction (1986) (14)
- Reasoning and Brain Function (2003) (13)
- Toward a solution of the learning paradox: emergent properties and neurological principles of constructivism (1989) (12)
- Connecting Science and Mathematics: The Nature of Proof and Disproof in Science and Mathematics (2008) (12)
- Introducing Mendelian Genetics through a Learning Cycle (1996) (11)
- Conservation reasoning avility and prrformation on BSCS blue vrsion examinations (1977) (11)
- Conditional logic abilities on the four-card problem: Assessment of behavioral and reasoning performances (1980) (10)
- Physics Problems and the Process of Self-Regulation. AESOP (Advancement of Education in Science-Oriented Programs) Paper. (1975) (10)
- Science education in Japan and the United States: Are the Japanese beating US at our own game? (1990) (10)
- Written Language Maturity and Formal Reasoning in Male and Female Adolescents (1979) (9)
- The Karplus Islands Puzzle: Does it measure piagetian operations? (1976) (9)
- Exploring Growth (& Mitosis) through a Learning Cycle (1991) (9)
- A Reply to Allchin's “Pseudohistory and Pseudoscience” (2004) (9)
- Student gain in reasoning ability as a function of teacher reasoning level and teaching style preference (1986) (9)
- Studying for biology (1997) (8)
- M-space: Is it a constraint on conservation reasoning ability? (1976) (8)
- Effective astronomy teaching: intellectual development and its implications. (1976) (8)
- Hemispheric Dominance, Conservation Reasoning and the Dominant Eye. (1975) (8)
- Advancing research beyond the ruling theory stage (1989) (7)
- Complications of laser therapy in the gynecological patient: a review of four patients. (1991) (7)
- Inductive‐deductive versus hypothetico‐deductive reasoning: A reply to yore (1993) (6)
- Constructivism taken to the absurd: A reply to roth (1993) (6)
- How's Your I.Q. (Inquiry Quotient)?: An Instrument to Measure Inquiry Teaching in the Science Classroom (1976) (6)
- Displacement Volume, An Indicator of Early Formal Thought; Developing a Paper-and-Pencil Test (1978) (6)
- Relationships between concrete and formal operational science subject matter and the intellectual level of the learner (1973) (6)
- Developing Formal Reasoning through the Study of English (1985) (6)
- The Role of The Prefrontal Lobes in Scientific Reasoning (1997) (6)
- Piagetian Tasks Clarified: The Use of Metal Cylinders. (1974) (6)
- What can developmental theory contribute to elementary science instruction? (2008) (6)
- On the Hypothetico-Deductive Nature of Science—Darwin’s Finches (2009) (6)
- An Analysis of Premature Closure in Science and Developmental Stages. (1980) (5)
- Integrating Research on Misconceptions, Reasoning Patterns and Three Types of Learning Cycles. (1986) (5)
- Training and Generalization of Conservation in Disadvantaged Black Teenagers: A Neo-Piagetian Approach (1975) (5)
- Constructivism and domains of scientific knowledge: A reply to Lythcott and Duschl (1991) (5)
- Allchin's errors and misrepresentations and the H-D nature of science (2006) (5)
- On why falsifiability does not exist in theory testing: A reply to smith and siegel (1993) (4)
- Guest editorial: The method of multiple working hypotheses (1990) (4)
- Effect of Analogic Instruction and Reasoning Level on Achievement in General Genetics. (1995) (4)
- How Many Scientific Methods Exist (2010) (4)
- A Survey of Causal Hypothesis Testing Strategies: K-12 (1985) (4)
- Conservation Reasoning Ability and Performance on BSCS Blue Version Examinations. (1977) (4)
- A reply to Hafner and Stewart's comments on predicting genetics achievement in nonmajors college biology (1989) (3)
- Sex Differences in Concrete and Formal Reasoning Ability as Measured by Manipulative Tasks and Written Tasks. AESOP (Advancement of Education in Science-Oriented Programs) Paper. (1975) (3)
- Conducting High Quality Educational Research (2005) (3)
- How old is the Earth: an exploration of geologic time through place-based inquiry (2007) (3)
- Why Do Most Science Educators Encourage To Teach School Science through Lab-Based Instruction?: A Neurological Explanation. (1999) (3)
- Designing Biology Laboratory and Field Experiences for Thinking. (1979) (3)
- Syntactical complexity in written language and cognitive development at the formal level (1979) (3)
- Conversations with Jean Piaget Jean-Claude Bringuier (1981) (3)
- Teaching for Thinking: A Piagetian Perspective. (1976) (3)
- What are Null Hypotheses? The Reasoning Linking Scientific and Statistical Hypothesis Testing (2008) (3)
- Central Role of Students’ Reasoning (2002) (2)
- Athletics, intellectual development, and teaching: An analogy (1977) (2)
- Misrepresentations in Nagy and Griffiths’ Review of Piagetian Research (1983) (2)
- The need for a unifying theory (1983) (2)
- Using chemistry problems to provoke self-regulation (1977) (2)
- Evolution, Equilibration, and Biology Instruction. (1982) (1)
- Testing Alternative Hypotheses about Animal Behavior. (1999) (1)
- Development of an integrated learning framework for STEM learning (2006) (1)
- Comments and criticism of hofstein and Mandler's use and interpretations of the lawson test of formal reasoning (1987) (1)
- A Comparative Study on Scientific Reasoning Skills in Korean and the US College Students (1999) (1)
- The resurrection of Piaget's epistemic subject?: A further reply to Niaz (1993) (1)
- Comment on the psychological link across formal operations (1980) (1)
- William Harvey, Predicting Capillaries, and the Nature of Science—One More Time (2005) (1)
- EMULSIONS AND STRAIGHT CUTTING FLUIDS (1953) (1)
- Human Traits vs. Crucial Experiments (1974) (1)
- Investigating and Applying Developmental Psychology in the Science Classroom (2017) (0)
- Can physics develop reasoning? The findings of Swiss scholar Jean Piaget suggest that it can- by helping people achieve a series of four distinct but overlapping stages of intellectual arowth as thev search for Datterns and relationships. (1977) (0)
- NATIONAL tHSTITLITE OF EOUCAUON (2007) (0)
- Comment on ’’Cognitive level and college physics achievement’’ (1979) (0)
- Acknowledgment to our referees (2009) (0)
- Biology instruction in the Nation's Elementary and Secondary Schools (1993) (0)
- A comment prompted by “relationships of science subject matter and developmental levels of learners” (1976) (0)
- Feature Points of View: On the Implications of Neuroscience Research for Science Teaching and Learning: Are There (2006) (0)
- Comments on “the nature of advanced reasoning and science instruction” (1984) (0)
- M-Space: Is It a Constraint on Reasoning Ability?. (1975) (0)
- How's Your I.Q. (Inquiry Quotient)?. (1974) (0)
- Expanded Abstracts and Critical Analyses of Recent (2008) (0)
- Comments on the use of multiple regression analyses (1984) (0)
- A Plateau and Spurt Pattern of Neurological Maturation, Scientific Reasoning Development and Conceptual Change in Korean Secondary School Students (1998) (0)
- SCIENCE CURRICULA IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY (1990) (0)
- Further commentary on “the acquisition of propositional logic and formal operational schemata during the secondary school years” (1982) (0)
- Teaching and the Conceptual Structure of Physics (2002) (0)
- Robert G. Fuller, Thomas C. Campbell, Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr., and Scott M. Stevens (eds): College Teaching and the Development of Reasoning (2011) (0)
- Call for papers. Special issue of the Journal of research in science teaching on: The role of analogy in science and science teaching (1992) (0)
- On the Absence of Magnetic Order in Plutonium (2006) (0)
- Topics-AIDS: Biology, a Catalog of Instructional Media for College Biology Robert S. Egan (1978) (0)
- Questions Biology Teachers Are Asking: An Interview with Anton E. Lawson (2005) (0)
- A Note on the Factor Structure of Some Piagetian Tasks. (1975) (0)
- j k How Exploring Growth Do (@ Mitosis) Through a (2016) (0)
- Lawson's Classroom Test of Formal Reasoning (2015) (0)
- Two Studies of Writing in High School Science Anne Miller Wotring Robert Tierney (1983) (0)
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