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A STUDY OF DIFFERENCES IN THE JUDGMENTS OF ADOLESCENT PUPILS
Author(s) -
PEEL E. A.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1966.tb01842.x
Subject(s) - psychology , circumstantial evidence , comprehension , set (abstract data type) , evocation , logical reasoning , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , linguistics , sociology , computer science , philosophy , political science , law , programming language , anthropology
S ummary . A cross‐sectional method was devised to investigate the differences in the judgments and reasoning of adolescent pupils when presented with connected passages calling for comprehension. Two passages were written to bring out certain features of the pupils' thinking such as tautological and irrelevant thinking, circumstantial judgments and finally, comprehensive judgments involving the imagination and evocation of possible explanations. Three large groups of pupils were tested, representing a wide range of intellectual capacity and achievement. The pupils' answers to the questions set on the passages were capable of analysis in terms of categories ranging from pre‐logical answers to fully comprehensive answers evoking imagined possibilities. Interesting formal changes were also demonstrated. In general, pupils up to the age of 13½ years judged circumstantially and only by 14+ years did they show a firm tendency to make comprehensive judgments involving the production of possible explanations.