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Charles E. Ophardl ~lmhurstColle~e Elmhurst, lWnois 60126

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D'zvelopment of Intellectual Skills in the Laboratory

...our first semester laboratory was designed to give instruction and practice in the intellectual skills of application, analysis, synthesis, and in Piaget's formal operations. Recent papers in this Journal (1-3) have called for the application of both Piaget's theories and Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" in the teaching of chemistry. Since studies ( 4 , 5 ) havi shown that 50%. of c