ERIC Number: EJ405304
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Publication Date: 1989
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The Intellectual Skill of Suspending Judgment--Do Pupils Possess It?
Jungwirth, Ehud
Gifted Education International, v6 n2 p71-77 1989
A logical thinking test containing logical fallacies was administered to groups of 16-year-old and 17-year-old students (N=437) in Austria, Israel, and the Philippines. Students considered very able performed satisfactorily when required to choose a logically sound option, but exhibited weak performance when test items required a logically reasoned suspension of judgment. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Evaluative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Gifted, High Schools, Logic, Logical Thinking
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Austria; Israel; Philippines
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