The Logical Intelligence Enhancement Program (LIEP) for the improvement of cognitive abilities. Premilinary findings

Marta Pellegrini; Valeria Di Martino; Lucia Donata Nepi; Andrea Peru

doi:10.6092/issn.1970-2221/11604

Authors

Marta Pellegrini Università di Firenze https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9806-3231

Marta Pellegrini is a fixed-term researcher at the University of Florence, Italy. She received her PhD in 2018 from the Department of Education and Psychology. As part of her doctoral studies, she spent nine months working at Johns Hopkins University, where she conducted quantitative reviews of research under the direction of Dr. Robert Slavin. Her research interests include evidence-based education, effective teaching methods, and systematic reviews.
Valeria Di Martino Università di Catania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9397-6226
Valeria Di Martino is a fixed-term researcher in Didactics and Special Education, at the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania. In 2017 she obtained her PhD in Psychological, Anthropological and Education Sciences at the University of Turin. Her research interests include: intervention strategies to promote school success; problem solving, logical reasoning and mathematical discussion; ICT and formative assessment in higher education.
Lucia Donata Nepi University of Florence

Lucia Donata Nepi has a degree in Humanities Studies and worked many years as a primary school teacher. At present she works as teacher supervisor at the School of Humanities and Education of the University of Firenze. Her research interests focus on inclusive education, in particular on the social participation of SEN students in regular schools.
Andrea Peru http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-0551

Andrea Peru has a degree in Medicine, and a diploma in Neurology from the University of Parma, and a PhD in Neurosciences from the University of Verona. At present, is an associate professor at the University of Firenze. His research interests range from clinical and experimental neuropsychology to special needs education and inclusive education.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/11604

Keywords:

cognitive enhancement, logical reasoning, cognitive abilities, cognitive training

Abstract

The Logical Intelligence Enhancement Program (LIEP) is a program specifically addressed to students aging from 6 to 12. It consists of a series of exercises of different types (verbal inferences, understanding of graphs and tables, series of digits, etc.) and increasing difficulty, properly devised to activate and train the abilities of logical reasoning. Hopefully, such an enhancement should result in an improvement of academic achievements, especially in low proficiency learner students. Here we report on a study carried out on a large cohort of fifth-grade students. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of LIEP in improving students’ cognitive abilities and abstract reasoning.

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