FIFTH GRADERS' EXPLANATIONS OF VERBAL ANALOGIES (REASONING STRATEGIES, COGNITIVE PROCESSES, EXPLANATIONS, SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS, REPORTING)

Abstract

The aim of this descriptive research was to provide preliminary information on the structure of reasoning strategies used by fifth graders to solve verbal analogies involving patterns of property and function relations. It investigated responses to two analogy structure types (A:B and A:C) of an open ended analogy format (A:B