While statistics are often considered "too advanced" for younger students, fourth grade students have shown impressive understanding of statistics and reasoning when working through a series of exercises (Petrosino et al. 2003).
He had an impressive family tree: his sire, Bold Reasoning, was the grandson of Bold Ruler, the father of the great Secretariat.
If this single (albeit tenacious) misconception is affecting students' ability to learn concepts throughout biology, instruction specifically designed to help students think critically about this sort of reasoning could have an impressive impact on student learning.
In both decisions, what is most impressive is the tone of the legal reasoning that gives rise to them.
Modern psychology has, to some extent, pulled the curtain back on human reasoning and shown it to be much less impressive than it sometimes pretends to be, and much more driven by the hidden force of intuition.
But most impressive is that "came to symbolise" – perhaps the woolliest piece of non-legal reasoning for a decision since that bloke was voted off the Weakest Link for being Welsh.
The ethics of natural law, with its impressive union of the Augustinian theory of eternal principles and the Aristotelian method of moral reasoning, did not remain long unchallenged.
The scientists behind the method have "some impressive sounding evidence, and understanding the problems with it requires fairly involved scientific and statistical reasoning," she wrote.
Instructor 1-AL's students showed particularly impressive gains for this question and, indeed, 77% of her students demonstrated principle-based reasoning on the posttest.
Antonio Damasio (1994) has amassed an impressive body of neurological evidence suggesting that emotions do, indeed, have this sort of function in everyday reasoning.
