Thinking and Learning Skills

Edited by: Judith W. Segal and Susan F. Chipman National Institute of Education; Robert Glaser University of Pittsburgh.

• Higher Cognitive Goals for Education: An Introduction; Introduction to Volume 1: Approaches to Instruction Program Presentations and Analyses Intelligence and Reasoning 1. Instrumental Enrichment, An Intervention Program for Structural Cognitive Modifiability: Theory and Practice 2. Thinking Skills Fostered by Philosophy for Children 3. Teaching Analytic Reasoning Skills Through Pair Problem Solving 4. Analysis—Improving Thinking and Learning Skills: An Analysis of Three Approaches Knowledge Acquisition 5. Learning Strategy Research 6. Learning Strategies: The How of Learning 7. Teaching Cognitive Strategies and Text Structures Within Language Arts Programs 8. Developing Reading and Thinking Skills in Content Areas 9. Analysis—Acquiring Information from Texts: An Analysis of Four Approaches Problem Solving 10. The CoRT Thinking Program 11. Strategic Thinking and the Fear of Failure 12. Analysis—Instruction in General Problem-Solving Skills: An Analysis of Four Approaches Educators 9 Experience 13. A Practitioner’s Perspective on The Chicago Mastery Learning Reading Program with Learning Strategies 14. Making Choices: It Ought to be Carefully Taught 15. Teaching Problem Solving to Developmental Adults: A Pilot Project 16. Thinking Skills: The Effort of One Public School System 17. The Development of Human Intelligence: The Venezuelan Case