Relational reasoning and its manifestations in the educational context: A systematic review of the literature

D Dumas, PA Alexander, EM Grossnickle - Educational Psychology …, 2013 - Springer
Relational reasoning, the ability to discern meaningful patterns within otherwise
unconnected information, is regarded as central to human learning and cognition and as …

The impact of the SMART program on cognitive and academic skills: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

RJ May, I Tyndall, A McTiernan… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Online interventions promoted to enhance cognitive ability hold great appeal for their
potential positive impact in social, employment, and educational domains. Cognitive training …

Development of proportional reasoning: where young children go wrong.

TW Boyer, SC Levine, J Huttenlocher - Developmental psychology, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous studies have found that children have difficulty solving proportional reasoning
problems involving discrete units until 10 to 12 years of age, but can solve parallel problems …

Concept–procedure interactions in children's addition and subtraction

KH Canobi - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
A 3-week problem-solving practice phase was used to investigate concept–procedure
interactions in children's addition and subtraction. A total of 72 7-and 8-year-olds completed …

Measuring relational reasoning

PA Alexander, D Dumas, EM Grossnickle… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Relational reasoning is the foundational cognitive ability to discern meaningful patterns
within an informational stream, but its reliable and valid measurement remains problematic …

Preschoolers' strategies for solving visual pattern tasks

MA Collins, EV Laski - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2015 - Elsevier
This study examined preschoolers'(N= 66) strategies for solving a range of visual repeating
pattern tasks. An analysis of the kinds of patterning tasks preschoolers encounter, such as …

The effect of SMART relational skills training on intelligence quotients: Controlling for individual differences in attentional skills and baseline IQ

B Roche, J Cummins, S Cassidy, A Dillon… - Journal of Contextual …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current study served to replicate the finding that extensive derived relational responding
fluency training using the SMART (strengthening mental abilities with relational training) …

Convergence of multiple fields on a relational reasoning approach to cognition.

S McLoughlin, I Tyndall, A Pereira - Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
The current paper briefly outlines how researchers from multiple sub-fields of cognitive
science have independently converged upon a relational account of language and …

Prompt-facilitated learning: The development of unprompted memory integration and subsequent self-derivation

JT Wilson, PJ Bauer - Memory & Cognition, 2021 - Springer
What are the boundaries that limit expansion of semantic knowledge across development?
One striking contender is the necessity of a prompt to integrate and self-generate new …

Relational reasoning's contributions to mathematical thinking and performance in Chinese elementary and middle-school students.

H Zhao, PA Alexander, Y Sun - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The overarching goal of this 2-phase study was to investigate the contributions of relational
reasoning to mathematical thinking and performance for 790 primary and middle-school …