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The use of Lawson's test of formal reasoning in the Israeli science education context
Author(s) -
Hofstein Avi,
Mandler Vera
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660220205
Subject(s) - test (biology) , context (archaeology) , mathematics education , achievement test , psychology , science education , academic achievement , population , standardized test , abstract reasoning , cognition , sociology , demography , geography , paleontology , archaeology , neuroscience , biology
Lawson's test of formal reasoning was used in the Israeli educational context in order to investigate the relationship between students' achievement in science and in mathematics, to compare the performance of boys and girls, and to compare the performance of Israeli and U.S. populations. It was found that, in general, boys outperform girls; there is only a small correlation between achievement in science and math and Lawson test; and that the Israeli population achieved significantly higher than the U.S. population on the Piagetian skills measured by the test: It was concluded that the future use of Lawson's test by the high school teacher is doubtful.