THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE PROCESS SKILL AND FORMAL THINKING ABILITIES.

The article examines the integrated process skill and formal thinking abilities of middle and high school students in Atlanta, Georgia. A relationship was thought to exist between integrated process skill and formal thinking abilities since both sets of skills strongly emphasize conducting fair experiments. The study shows that there is a significant correlation between achievement on the pencil and paper measures of formal operational and integrated process skill achievement and all subtests of both measures. One implication of the result is that process skill teaching might influence formal thinking ability.